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Oct 27, 2009 10:55

This is an entry from Daily Kos that someone on my Twitter feed posted today and I am glad she did. Too often sexual assaults is presented as a woman's problem. So much of what is out there about rape prevention is aimed at women and is defensive. It's all about us watching our backs, not going certain places alone, how to get away from an ( Read more... )

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missfine October 27 2009, 16:12:30 UTC

Not once but twice a man has grabbed my breast in public.
Neither of the times could I have possibly thought that was going to happen.
Another time at Whataburger a guy tried to grab me through my window and kiss me, then ran over to try to grab my friend out of my car. I got out and beat his ass.

sabrarosa October 27 2009, 16:46:08 UTC

And yet there are folks who would claim that isn't so bad since it wasn't rape. It's fucked up and I am sorry that happened to you.

missfine October 27 2009, 17:06:35 UTC

Who knows what could have happened if I hadn't acted.

sabrarosa October 27 2009, 17:10:40 UTC

Yeah, exactly. It's frightening.

soundwave106 October 27 2009, 17:04:42 UTC

Tell you what -- you get rid of the faults of women -- the gold-diggers, those who falsify sexual harassment as means to advance their power, the Precious Snowflake mothers who view every man as a sex offenders (and have constricted ridiculously shitty laws around this notion -- and we'll get rid of the faults of men, eg that boisterous over-testosteroned masochism ( ... )

sabrarosa October 27 2009, 17:10:10 UTC

And with all those arguments you fail at this debate. Go back and read the article again.

soundwave106 October 27 2009, 20:45:31 UTC

I have. Explain your programs for men for preventing rape. Explain exactly how "the patriarchal sense of entitlement to a woman's body" causes rape. Can you without blowing me off?

bella_peligrosa October 27 2009, 19:20:21 UTC

(Marie, my apologies for bringing this to your journal...but it must be said ( ... )

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nebris October 28 2009, 16:16:00 UTC

Dead men don't rape.

~M~

soundwave106 October 30 2009, 22:35:44 UTC

Unless they are zombies or vampires.

originalwacky October 29 2009, 04:39:54 UTC

I am friending you for this entry, and your discussion of it. I like you.

sabrarosa October 29 2009, 04:58:34 UTC

Why thank you. I am honored.

candika November 6 2009, 06:33:10 UTC

I'm sorry I missed this the other day. I saw your post and meandered across to see what had happened over here when you mentioned that you'd had a derailer here. And you're right. He was a beauty, a fine and active specimen.

I just love how a serious discussion with rightfully angry people raising points left and right is suddenly relegated to a 'tone argument' with your visitor claiming that we'd have so much more success if we were just nicer to men and spared their feelings. We've tried that. We've been trying it since the early C20th and we've found that any advances we make are when we insist on change and stick to our guns. That involves raising issues repeatedly and staying in people's faces. And of course that's going to make some (not all) men defensive ( ... )

candika November 6 2009, 06:36:44 UTC

I hope you don't mind my friending you.