I, too, think that the sexual dimension is painfully obvious.
Well of course you do. Because it is unthinkable for you that rape be about power and domination. The reason for this is simple. If rape is about power and domination, then rape prevention ideology you are holding onto with your hot little hands falls to the side. If, however, you believe that rape is about sex or the desire to "fuck", then women becoming less desirable to males and becoming less obvious by their dress, behaviour such as drinking or being out late at night, becomes paramount to your belief that how a woman behaves will affect if she is raped or not.
Nope.
Say it, Bells. Risk reduction is ineffective. Self-defense is ineffective. Responsible drinking is ineffective. None of this will reduce your chance of getting raped.
Now, prove it.
It would help this discussion if you did not veer so far off topic and keep trying to change what people say. It is also very dishonest behaviour. That you cannot read or possibly do not understand how to click on links is not my problem but yours. I have even provided detailed explanations of why demanding that women act a certain way or behave a certain way to prevent being raped is an infringement on women's rights and liberties. Your response was to have some kind of hissy fit and declare that I was telling women to drink like men or to lie down and take it like a woman (whatever that means), which kind of made the point for me.
You are yet to address the fact that rape prevention ideology places the onus on women to not be raped, instead of demanding that men not rape. You even scoffed at the thought that males should be expected to not rape and instead demand that women be less like men and to not take it like women..
In short, you view women as being weak and who must act and behave a certain way to not draw attention to themselves from any potential rapist in their vicinity but you seem to be very confused as to how that can happen.
So I'll ask again, how does one drink like a man and increase the risk of being raped? Do you tell men to not drink like men? Or do you reserve that level of 'speshual' solely for women? And what about 'taking it like a woman'? Are we meant to take it like men to avoid being raped?
You’re an attorney that has prosecuted tons of rape cases, but you didn't know the first thing about the insanity defense. That’s odd, isn't it?
What does the insanity defense have to do with your demanding that women not drink like men or not take it like women? Are you invoking it?
I know of the insanity defense and I also know of it as it applies to Australian law. Remember, we have a different legal system here in Australia.
Please answer the questions and stop ranting about things that do not even apply to what we are discussing. I know you can do it! Try!
You've attended self-defense classes, but claim that it somehow inhibits your behavior, when it gives me more confidence and freedom. You even actively lecture about rape and sexual assault.
Not at all.
Is reading and comprehension an issue for you? Should I use smaller words or are you just going to go off the rails again?
I said that self defense is not about rape prevention. Rape prevention is usually applied by people who believe that women should act differently or be different and who believe that it is up to the woman who make herself less attractive to any potential rapist in her vicinity, while disregarding the fact that rapists come from all walks of life, which results in women living in constant fear of rape and who are never able to truly be themselves, because of those in society who demand that the onus be placed on her to not be raped. The result of this is often seen in the courtroom where the woman is blamed or held responsible for being raped - such as she was drunk, she was dressed in a certain way, she talked back, she did not take precautions to stop someone from raping her. The criminal justice system is full of police officers who will not even investigate rapes because they do not believe that date rape or marital rape is real rape, or those like Ken Buck, a prosecutor who refused to accept a confession from a rapist who clearly said that she had come to from her unconscious state and said no and tried to move away from him as he penetrated her with his fingers and then his penis, and he kept going anyway, because she was drunk at the time. This is the ideology of rape prevention. The rape victim was told that she could have prevented or lessened her chances of being raped if she had not invited someone she knew and trusted to her home when she was drunk and that she should not have gone to her bedroom. Your ideology is a part of the culture that protects rapists and blames women if they are raped, simply because you believe that it is for the woman to prevent being raped.
Certainly, we can watch you blather on as you try to decide which side of the fence you sit on and as amusing as hell as that is, you are still to define why you believe women's freedoms should be restrained under the false guise of rape prevention and why you seem determined to deem rape victims as failures because they were unable to prevent their own rape?
Well…goddamn, Bells, can’t you pull a medical degree out of your hat? You tell me, does alcohol affect men and women differently? Is binge drinking harmless? Of course, we can drink, but everyone needs to know how to drink responsibly.
Well gee, Trooper. Alcohol affects everyone differently. To demand that women not drink like men is hysterically short sighted and downright silly. I know women who could down a bottle of whiskey and not even slur their words and I know men who have one glass of wine and they are plastered off their nut. So please explain, how does one drink like a man?
Unless of course you mean how it affects one's moods, where researches have found that alcohol has a tendency to affect men's moods by making them more angry and women more emotional?
There is a distinction between prevention that restricts women’s freedom from those that enhance it.
Well heaven forbid a woman's freedoms be enhanced.
Tell me, how and why do you think restricting women's movements, behaviour and actions under the umbrella of rape prevention, not infringing on her freedoms?