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(39,154 posts)Ugh!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Bill O'Reilly, for one.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)unlike most of the others who have been tanking since the election
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)I've seen it a time or two here
tblue37
(65,403 posts)conservatives in India would not be saying in response to the rape of that young woman that women and girls need to wear more modest clothing to prevent such things from happening to them.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)back in the early 2000s when some woman wearing a mini skirt got raped in Florida.
flying_wahini
(6,606 posts)n/t
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)but they could remember the victim's shoes.
Yup, their shoes. See, they were interested in how easy their victim could fight back, or run (or not run). Women in high heels - easy prey. Running shoes - difficult.
Its really interesting but I'm literally "running" out the door myself (in sensible running shoes)!
Rapists are interested in power, violence and control - its not about clothing.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Rapists escape punishment all the time using some variation of this same argument.
Larrymoe Curlyshemp
(111 posts)Some years back (1990s?), where the defendant, whose last name was Lord, got off because the jury bought the defense attorney's argument that the woman was "asking for it."
ck4829
(35,077 posts)How did she ask to be raped at knife point, right?
(It might not have been the same exact case, but it was the same guy. Yes, he raped twice, I wonder if the second victim asked for it too.)
kurtzapril4
(1,353 posts)Ahhhh...if only she knew.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)you know me. jesting.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Back-at-cha sea!
tavalon
(27,985 posts)The only satisfaction they get is through making another person suffer. It's disgusting.
icarusxat
(403 posts)You can dress in the same fine duds you might find on a republican, but you are still going to get raped, even if it is just a legitimate rape...
TrogL
(32,822 posts)JI7
(89,251 posts)japple
(9,831 posts)asking to be raped.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Heathen57
(573 posts)Men wanting to control women, all the while having absolutely no self control of their own.
AAO
(3,300 posts)There is never an excuse to rape somebody.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Exactly. No one is responsible for the rapist's behavior -- except the rapist. No one.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)I despise rapists.
ithinkmyliverhurts
(1,928 posts)"And say to the faithful women to lower their gazes, and to guard their private parts, and not to display their beauty except what is apparent of it, and to extend their headcoverings (khimars) to cover their bosoms (jaybs), and not to display their beauty except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husband's fathers, or their sons, or their husband's sons, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their womenfolk, or what their right hands rule (slaves), or the followers from the men who do not feel sexual desire, or the small children to whom the nakedness of women is not apparent, and not to strike their feet (on the ground) so as to make known what they hide of their adornments. And turn in repentance to Allah together, O you the faithful, in order that you are successful"
Qur'an Sura Nur Chapter: The Light. Verse 31
"it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person" (Matt. 15.11).
freshwest
(53,661 posts)In a 4-3 ruling Tuesday afternoon, the Connecticut State Supreme Court overturned the sexual assault conviction of a man who had sex with a woman who has severe cerebral palsy, has the intellectual functional equivalent of a 3-year-old and cannot verbally communicate. The Court held that, because Connecticut statutes define physical incapacity for the purpose of sexual assault as unconscious or for any other reason. . . physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act, the defendant could not be convicted if there was any chance that the victim could have communicated her lack of consent. Since the victim in this case was capable of biting, kicking, scratching, screeching, groaning or gesturing, the Court ruled that that victim could have communicated lack of consent despite her serious mental deficiencies:
When we consider this evidence in the light most favorable to sustaining the verdict, and in a manner that is consistent with the states theory of guilt at trial, we, like the Appellate Court, are not persuaded that the state produced any credible evidence that the was either unconscious or so uncommunicative that she was physically incapable of manifesting to the defendant her lack of consent to sexual intercourse at the time of the alleged sexual assault.
According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN), lack of physical resistance is not evidence of consent, as many victims make the good judgment that physical resistance would cause the attacker to become more violent. RAINN also notes that lack of consent is implicit if you were under the statutory age of consent, or if you had a mental defect as the victim did in this case.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021474289
Yes, I agree with the OP. Get real, people.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Really, really sick.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)ZX86
(1,428 posts)is never used when addressing prison rape? "Hey he dropped the soap. He was asking for it. That's what you get for being such a tease".
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)And yes, anyone who spouts such swill deserves to be clocked.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)They act as if it is their birth right to grab any woman they want.
As for rape, it is indefensible. I don't care what she's wearing, no one has the right to force another person to have sex with them. In the event that the woman has passed out, that is not a tacit agreement on her part that she wants to be violated.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)...told they are neurotic and need to loosen up.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)duhneece
(4,113 posts)When I hear a woman blamed for her rape on how provocatively she was dressed.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)! ! ! [img][/img] There is no defense for rape. It's wrong! End of story. [img][/img]
retread
(3,762 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)War Horse
(931 posts)We've really failed as species, as this obviously has to be explained to people in the year 2012.
Uhm, 2013.
AAO
(3,300 posts)And then the rest of the repubs should be neutered by big dem majorities.
2014 will be a very good year.. IF the cards are well played ....
lunatica
(53,410 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts).... If I lived in one of those towns that had rape crews, I would form a beat-em-up crew. Call it teenage vigilante justice. If they rape, we beat-em-up. Do two wrongs make a right? No. Does a wrong and a right make a right? No. If a wrong stops a wrong, I think that makes a right. Did I say that right?