What you want is for everyone here to just take what you are doing at face value. Like you are simply interested in finding the truth about women's behavioral effect on the liklihood of rape. But what you are doing and how you want to be seen are two different things. The bizzare and really very angry male urge to have discussions about what a woman could have done to have reduced the liklihood of rape VASTLY overshadows their interest in looking at what makes it, for example, more likely for men to want to rape at all.
These men who want to have this 'intellectual' discussion think that the discussion is contextless and is objective on their side, which is not the case.
Why the hell do you want to focus on the issue in this way?
It is pretty obvious from the outside.
If everyone got down on their knees for you and decided that your statistical ideas and implied ideas are correct, your whole interest in rape as an issue would stop.
It is possible that the behavior of some slaves made it more likely for them to get whipped. And when they gathered together in their shacks a discussion about how not to get on the wrong side of they guy with the whip might have been useful.
But a bunch of non-slave owning white guys to sit around in Charlestown and try to get abolitionists to admit that the slaves who got whipped probably could have reduced the liklihood of it by this or that behavior
ARE UP TO SOMETHING.
It might be good for your own growth to figure out what you are really up to, rather than just getting pissed off that no one want to be as rational and contextless as you think you are.
Of all the positions you could take on the wide variety of issues out there you want women and men to admit that women could reduced the liklihood of getting raped.
Why would it make you feel good to hear that?
You can kneejerk attack this argument and pretend what I am saying about you is bullshit for all I care, but on your own, in private, where none of us will notice that you are doing it, take a look at your self.
Cause 1) it is adding to the BS in the world and 2) it is not doing you any good either.
White noise.
What are you doing?
Don't make assumptions about my agenda or what I think; you'll only make an ass of yourself.
As for political correctness - hah I just love how folks like to throw this out when they're caught in the headlamps with no-where to run. Rape is a brutal, personal, CRIMINAL assualt on another person; uninvited and undeserved. Rape has been used across the centuries to try to control and subjugate.
Attempts to blame women (oh if only were they to behave differently they wouldn't get raped!) are the bleatings of cowards seeking to justify the violently criminal behaviour of other cowards - or perhaps they are hoping they might get away with it themselves one day if they help perpetuate the bullshit....
You don't think women have rights then?
I think your sympathies lie with rapists, and not the victims, if that makes my position any clearer for you?
Many people here have used quotes around the word to denote they are quoting the title. You however had said;
You think that women dress like 'sluts'. You think there is a class of women who it's OK to label 'sluts', you denigrate women with every post you make and dig yourself in deeper.
If it's true or false, it is just your opinion. Once it's true, it's a fact, but so far no support has been given for the argument, so it remains your twisted opinion.
Using the word sluttily is sexist.
I don't understand those, but then, you are closer to the psychology of one than I am.
There you go using the 'slut' word again. GROW THE FUCK UP.
We can discuss the topic without you denigrating women. Your use of such words without quotation is very telling. You disgust me.
Phlogistician said:
There you go using the 'slut' word again. GROW THE FUCK UP.
if you can't deal with a word i use, that's your problem. i don't care about your needs. don't enter a thread with slut in the title, then tell me i can't use the word slut.
Cite your source!!! Certainly not common sense, especially if you believe that sexual arousal is a component of rape.... (My understadning is that it is not the driving factor, if it's relevant at all, in most sexual crimes)
Even if you you agree that rape is not about sex, but rather violence and control, then you are still left with refuting the analogy illustrating (by your own admission) that violence upon a male can be influenced by attire...
... a discussion by actual victims of rape.
Gustav said:
pardon but is the template for this discussion some utopian paradise? i mean, i know i have the right of way at the crosswalk when the green light comes on. yet that fact does not preclude an obligatory check on my part.
knowing there are predators out there, anyone who does not caution those known to be at risk of being victimized is doing them a disservice. if dressing down can be shown to produce results, i would get the word out. its what moms tell their daughters. they know that boob tops and mini skirts get more cat calls over conservative attire. mom would like her little girl to be safe from any untoward attention which can then easily escalate into any number of things, rape being one.
now
until considerations of this nature are inadmissible across the board, without any exceptions.......
..i would have all err on the side of caution.
life itself is a risky venture. a balancing act of sorts. only fools rush in, with blinders on, hoping for the best
All you are trying to do randwolf if score a wee point about attire. Oh perhaps if the woman hadn't been wearing a ponytail that day her attacker wouldn't have been able to grab her, push her to the ground and rape her.
OK here's a hypothetical for you. Let's suppose all the women of the world suddenly stop wearing ponytails. Do you think rapes will go down statistically?
Or lets put it another way. If all women donned a burkha and stood stock still in only in brightly lit places that rapes would go down statistically?
You see trying (and failing) to hammer home your trivial point does not trivialise the impact of rape.
Nor does it alter the fact that the largest % of rapes are not committed by strangers out in the dark scanning for a victim in a pony tail/short dress/hign heels. The majority of rapists have ready access to a victim handily sitting with them at home or in the house of a friend or relative.
Perhaps you might be able to score a discussion point against some blade that's not as sharp as you, eh?
...a tremendous portion of the thousands of rapes taking place on and around American college campuses each year—mostly date rapes—could be eliminated in the future if our society and families spent more resources educating our children in the nature and necessity of basic human respect.
ok i will
you will love the next episode where i run you feminazis over with a steamroller
/snicker
• Don't want your car stolen? don't park in crime ridden areas. take public transportation
But then don't you risk getting raped?
• Don't want to get mugged on the streets? safety in numbers. take a friend. carry a gun
But couldn't you then get shot instead?
• Don't want to be raped by your husband? press charges then divorce the guy
Too late he already raped me!
• How do you protect your children from the ever-looming threat of sexual abuse and assault? educate them
What if the parent is the abuser?
• Don't want to die of cancer? diet, exercise and preventive measures
And you could still die of cancer. Poverty bigger causal factor in cancer diagnosis so folks try not to get too poor whilst you are munching on those lettuce leaves
a nuanced take and more realistic options i think
there are nuances to your nuances!
..i would have all err on the side of caution.
life itself is a risky venture. a balancing act of sorts. only fools rush in, with blinders on, hoping for the best
And you would bat an elephant with a pin. And then have us living in sealed boxes.
That's it sniffy, avoid any actual discussion here.
Oh, BTW just continue to ignore my entire post, you might actually have to think about the issues... :bugeye:
You're really way over your head here... It's ok though, we understand your limitations. :m: