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To: Kaslin
I despise feminism and all its works, and I usually agree with Dennis Prager about the victim mentality, but in this I disagree. Teenage girls frequently are the subject (I will not say "victim") of sexual harassment, in part because women are no longer respected in our society (something feminism brought about, thanks) and because our morals have decayed so much that many boys and men expect sex instead of expecting purity.

Confession time:

When I was a skinny, innocent, modestly-dressed Christian teenager I experienced what I now recognize as harassment. Once I was overpowered by a hugely fat and strong old man who used his weight to immobilize me while he French-kissed me, on another occasion told by a man who trailered my horse far away that he would not bring me home unless I performed oral sex on him (I did not, of course), and in college told by a professor that I had to have sex with him or he'd fail me in a course in which I'd earned an A. This all happened many years ago when things were nowhere near as coarse as they are today.

So these things do happen, Mr. Prager. Sexual harassment of girls has to be fairly common if a girl as skinny as I used to be gets it. The difference is that back then, we didn't complain about it because nothing would be done unless a real rape had taken place. If girls report it now because someone told them they don't have to put up with it, that's a good thing. It used to be that church elders or parents told boys and girls they couldn't behave badly, but now we have lost the influence of both, so apparently we need a bunch of carping feminists to tell us.

4 posted on 06/03/2008 5:49:11 AM PDT by ottbmare
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To: ottbmare

The other thing I should probably add is that the good, decent men on this forum who would never dream of doing such a thing to a young girl may not, in their kindness, realize that there are a lot of badly-reared or not-so-decent men and boys who wouldn’t hesitate.

Which of course does not negate the fact that feminism and liberalism cause people to regard themselves as helpless victims.


6 posted on 06/04/2008 10:04:36 AM PDT by ottbmare
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