Would it count as rape? Yes. But I am at a loss for why she would give a damn, if she doesn't care about who she has sex with?
There would be no virginity issues, nor relationship ones...
Oh so the fact that she was forced to have sex, without her consent, she shouldn't care because she's had sex many times before? Right. So a woman has no right over her own body if she's been promiscuous in the past? You actually turn my stomach.
See my main post for my justifications. If you'd like to address them specifically, I'd be glad to reply.
I've read it, and all I see is drivel. You still fail to understand the concept that there is never a justification for rape. Rape is not merely about sex. Rape is about power, control and subjugation the victim. But I guess you are too uneducated and too morally bankrupt and basically backwards to understand such a notion.
I am speaking of "sexually-focused" in a general cultural context. If she was wearing a non-revealing sweater and a normal pair of jeans, for instance, she could hardly be said to be provoking anyone in particular.
And you actually say you disagree with the Mufti? So you think that if she's covered up, she wouldn't be provoking anyone? Hmmm sound about pretty much what he stated in his speech during Ramadan. A woman should be free to wear whatever the hell she may choose and not be raped. A woman has a right to not be raped. You keep assuming that women who dress a certain way would not really attract rape or provoke a man to rape her. But women are raped on a daily basis and are dressed differently. Some are raped in their own homes and some are raped at work, while walking down the street, etc. It has nothing to do with her dress or anything else for that matter. It is the rapist who has the problem against women as a whole. Excuses about her dress (as one example) is just that. An excuse.
You are keeping the onus on the woman instead of laying the blame where it lies. On the rapist. You still don't get that if a man rapes a woman, because she was wearing something skimpy, that it is he who has the problem. The rapist is the problem and not the woman. He is the one who has a problem against women and not the other way around. Your attempting to justify his behaviour is pathetic in the extreme and makes you just as bad as a rapist would be in attempting to justify his own behaviour. You can never justify a crime against another person. But I guess people like you prefer to lay the blame on the women instead of realising and understanding that men who rape women have a problem with women in general. What they wear, say, do, drink, etc, means nothing at all. I guess maybe you are trying to justify your own behaviour and attitude possibly towards women in general.
One can reasonably expect privacy and safety in one's home enough to walk around in one's underwear, nude, or otherwise. One could not be blamed for doing so and someone looking in, unless one was purposefully parading around a ground-level window with an intent to "show off".
Again. You take the blame away from where it lies. Are you that weak that you can't control yourself around women and therefore prefer to blame her instead of addressing your own problems, issues, weakness and lack of self control? Because that's what it amounts to with a rapist. Men break into women's houses and rape them. Men have in the past raped women (from children to the elderly) in hospital rooms, etc. So what exactly can they have done to prevent it? A man does't rape a woman because he merely wants a "fuck". He rapes her because he wants to control her, have power over her and demean her.
A man who breaks into a womans house and rapes her, is not different to a man who rapes a woman who might be dressed in what you've termed a "sexually focused manner". A rapist is a rapist. No matter who he rapes, how he rapes her and why he may have done it. He's still a rapist. He's the one with the problem. A woman is free to wear whatever she so chooses and have the right to not be raped. She can be free to wear or not wear whatever the hell she damn wants, be it in her house or out in public, and have the
ultimate right to not be raped. She is not the problem or the issue. The rapist is.
You will note that I have mentioned that the moral blame belongs solely to the rapist. I am only claiming that women can and ought to lower the possibility of rape.
How? Women are raped regardless of what they may wear or do or not do. A woman cannot lower the possibility of her being raped because rapists do not rape for specific reasons such as her manner of dress, her behaviour, what she's drunk, if she's married. A rapist picks his victim because he wants to control her and demean her. She could be wearing anything at all, she could be in jeans and the sweater you so stupidly recommended, and she'd still be raped. Not because he's somehow 'sexually attracted' to her, but because he wants to control her and make her feel worthless so that he can feel like a better or bigger man, so that he can feel like he has power over her. She could be anywhere at all, in her own home with the curtains and windows shut and he can break in and rape her. Why? Because he has complete control over her and her saying "no" means nothing, because he is the one with the power to decide what happens to her.
May you or your family never get raped. Because rape is not merely about sex, as so many of you seem to assume.
Wow, you sure love Strawmen Arguments, don't you?
"WoW, you sure" are an idiot aren't you?
Those are some of the justifications that some men have given for raping a woman. "She smiled at me".. "She looked at me, therefore she wanted me".. "She walked that way just for me because she knew I liked it" (even though he was a complete stranger to her).. etc. Sadly they aren't strawmen arguments, they are realities of the excuses men give to rape women as well as children. I've heard paedophiles actually say that because the little 5 year smiled at him as she licked her ice-cream, she was telling him she wanted to sleep with him. Rapists, like paedophiles, will see what they want to see in every situation and with every individual they decide to assault, even if it is in their own minds.
Really? And here I thought I was actually being restrained and polite.
You're kidding right? You really think all men view the same thing as being somehow overtly sexual or 'flirtatious'? A woman winking at you may not be winking at you but may have a facial tick, or may have something in her eye. She may touch herself (ie. rub her arms or shoulders) not because she's flirting with you, but because she's either cold, you actually make her uncomfortable enough that her actions of rubbing her arms ensures that her arm is there across her body as a barrier between herself and you. She may flick her hair not because she wants to flirt with you, but because her hair is actually bothering her.
You may think her tight top is sexually suggestive, but another man may not and may not be attracted to it at all because he prefers women to wear something different. What you deem to be "flirtations" are not deemed as such by the woman in question or by other men either.
I never claimed that the man owns the woman. I claimed that both ought to be sexually available to eachother. This implies a mutual thing. It is laso implied in the very notion of marriage and its historic and continuing cultural purpose.
Sex is not available if one party does not want it, regardless of their marital status. Merely being married does not mean that the man, or the woman for that matter, can merely take whatever they so choose if the other party is not willing. If a woman says no to sex to her husband, he has no right to force her. Doing so is rape.
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draqon said:
Bells: what protection will men have than...from women making false allegations that she has been raped? or is this ok with you? or wait...your not going to reply to this, because you really dont want to answer this question as it makes some women evil. have you not seen evil women or all that surrounds you is angelic?
Good grief, you really are as silly as you appear.
Any person who makes a false allegation and it is proven as such in any matter should be prosecuted.
However, I need to ask you a question. If a woman has been raped and the man says she's making it up and gets away with it, is that right? Is that fair? Or do you think that men can do whatever the hell they want because they are men and therefore no woman should ever refuse them or simply say "no".
please tell me how I should view women and act about them. I obviosuly have problems from the way I view/act towards women, i am almost 20 and I never had a gf...never kissed a girl. so please change me.
And I expect that will never change if your attitude and actions are any thing to go by.
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madanthonywayne said:
As I said, nothing listed above excuses rape. But many of them are just stupid, akin to leaving the keys in your car in a bad neighboorhood. If a woman was walking around naked, I wouldn't say that gives anyone the right to rape her. It's just that I wouldn't be surprised if someone did.
Why? Seriously, why wouldn't you be surprised?
Why can't men control themselves? Why are some men that weak? Why do some men feel the need to control, have power over and demean others to such an extent that they rape them? Because that's what rape is. It's not just about sex. So what would a woman walking down the street naked have to do with such men who are so lacking that they think raping a woman will make them feel like a true man?