I was browsing around Facebook on my phone while I feed Tsunami a bottle early in the morning the other day, when I came across this thread:
This is just the sort of thing that makes it seem justifiable for women to be afraid of men. This is also an example of what makes it hard for me to be male without having women assume me guilty until proven innocent. I know that for the most part, these kind of things are said without intended harm, but this misogynist superior male attitude leads down the road to inappropriate touching and rape. As you can see above, some women are just as much to blame. And not only rape, but the kind of rape that people, like Ron Paul, try to justify:
There seems to be a rising attitude out there that sometimes a woman is "asking for it" by the attitude she conveys or the clothing she wears, otherwise it is somehow not an "honest rape" as Paul puts it above. This is absurd victim blaming. It has been said before and I will reiterate it here; ANYONE should be able to walk down the street naked without getting raped. It is shameful that our society would rather apologize for the rapist and blame the victim than call it for what it is.
I saw a tweet a few weeks ago, which I am failing to find now, but it drove home a pretty good point about victim blaming. I do not remember the exact wording, but the gist of it was this: Are banks responsible for getting robbed because of the fancy lobby and all the money they flash around?
This is just the sort of thing that makes it seem justifiable for women to be afraid of men. This is also an example of what makes it hard for me to be male without having women assume me guilty until proven innocent. I know that for the most part, these kind of things are said without intended harm, but this misogynist superior male attitude leads down the road to inappropriate touching and rape. As you can see above, some women are just as much to blame. And not only rape, but the kind of rape that people, like Ron Paul, try to justify:
MORGAN: Here's the dilemma, and it's one I put to Rick Santorum very recently. I was surprised by his answer, although I sort of understood from his belief point of view that he would come up with this.
But it's a dilemma that I am going to put to you. You have two daughters. You have many granddaughters. If one of them was raped -- and I accept it's a very unlikely thing to happen. But if they were, would you honestly look at them in the eye and say they had to have that child if they were impregnated?
PAUL: No. If it's an honest rape, that individual should go immediately to the emergency room. I would give them a shot of estrogen or give them --
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There seems to be a rising attitude out there that sometimes a woman is "asking for it" by the attitude she conveys or the clothing she wears, otherwise it is somehow not an "honest rape" as Paul puts it above. This is absurd victim blaming. It has been said before and I will reiterate it here; ANYONE should be able to walk down the street naked without getting raped. It is shameful that our society would rather apologize for the rapist and blame the victim than call it for what it is.
I saw a tweet a few weeks ago, which I am failing to find now, but it drove home a pretty good point about victim blaming. I do not remember the exact wording, but the gist of it was this: Are banks responsible for getting robbed because of the fancy lobby and all the money they flash around?
With the climate heating up the way it is, clothes are becoming increasingly oppressive. Too bad people's reactions are even more oppressive.
ReplyDeleteThe issue boils down to respect. Nothing wrong with appreciating a nice body, but be respectful. If that was your daughter, sister, girl-friend, wife, would you say anything like that? I doubt it.
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