About 40 years ago we started "speaking out against violence," rather than dangling the perpetrators from trees. How's that working out so far?
are all women potential whores?
They are all potential thieves and murderers also, women too. The capacity for evil is in each one of us.
People have potential. Some degenerate, most do not. Hence we are left with this thing called civilization.
>>But I am not a potential rapist...<<
He is if he has a functioning penis. However, although he is, by definition, a potential rapist, it may be highly unlikely that he would rape. Same goes for me.
All people are potential murderers by virtue of their God given ability to actually do it. The RELEVANT question is, how much of a risk are you to actually do it.
I think that this article is very narrow minded, as it automatically assumes that all rape and sexual assault victims are female. Of course, it is abhorrent when a woman is violated sexually, but we have to keep in mind here that rape and sexual abuse can happen to anyone. The article mentions how the media is demeaning to women, implying that the issue is misogyny or degradation of the female, but it also says that rape is an act of violence, not passion or sexuality. Therefore, it would be wise to focus more on aggression in the rapist than on gender roles. The fact of the matter is that according to official statistics, at least 10% of all rape victims are male. Of course, the actual numbers are much probably much higher, as males a subjected to society’s stereotype that men are supposed to be strong and able to protect themselves. So when a guy is raped, he is most likely not going to come forward and admit it, because he will feel ashamed or that his masculinity has somehow been compromised. Let’s just try to see the broader picture, here.
As I understand it, there are people in the Obama administration who think that all babies are potential humans (After a certain age of course)
>>Painting all men with the same brush greatly hampers the co-operation between genders that’s needed to properly address our epidemic of sexual violence.<<
To me, that is the relevant kernel to this. My ex-wife went to training at our church to become a counselor to abused women. In the process I watched her learn about all the different forms of abuse, right down to not taking out the trash when your wife asks you to.
I told her one day that they had so broadened the word as to make ALL husbands de-facto abusers of their wives. Instead of discussing it with me rationally, she really got angry and accused me of having an anger problem. ;)
It led to our divorce. Interestingly, the church (at my request) tried to bring us back together. In one meeting of four male elders and three women, she made her case against me, using notes from a notepad, line iteming my abuses. After the meeting one elder came to me and said that list pretty much applied to every man and woman in the room and made him and one woman specifically, very uncomfortable.
Long diatribe, but the bottom line is this stuff has to be treated in varyous levels, just as doing 71 in a 70 speed zone is different than doing 71 in a school zone.
There was guy who on G Gordon Liddy’s show about 10 years ago, I believe it was Randy THornhill who claimed all mammals used raped as a sexual strategy.
1 in 4 women in Canada get raped? That’s a pretty large percentage. (so much for visiting Canada!) I don’t think ALL men are potential rapists...because rape is an act of agression and violence and realistically - the rapist is pathetic.
Not all men are violent, and some actually love women. No man with a good heart or solid morals would rape a woman.
What’s going on up there in Canada? Are men not charged and convicted with rape? What’s going on in the legal system?
A convicted male rapist in the US can look forward to a lovely stay (no matter how short a stay) in prison - where he becomes the rape victim (I understand there is a 100% chance of getting violently sodomized in prison). Same goes with child molesters.
Then when he gets out he’s on the sex offenders list and I would imagine, getting a job would be quite difficult. It’s hard enough to get a job with out the legal baggage!
All women are potential rapists too. And potential murderers, and potential everything else. We all are.
As long as each of us has a functioning brain and free will, we are all capable of every kind of evil. So from this FACT, we can extrapolate and say that smart people are capable of more evil than dumb people.
KILL ALL THE SMARTIES NOW! Our children won’t be safe as long as these sickos live.
And castrate all the men and spey all the women. make sure everyone wears a crash helmet and safety glasses and safety shoes. Otherwise WE SHALL ALL PERISH HORRIBLY AND UNIMAGINABLY!
AHHHHH! ITS THE END OF THE WOOOORLD!
>Rape is about power and control, domination by a man over a woman — check.
Then explain the several woman-teacher rapes male-student stories we’ve heard just this year.
>Sexual assault is so widespread that one in four Canadian women will experience it — check.
And Women’s Suffrage is so widespread that MORE than 9 in 10 women will experience it in either the US or Canada!
>Men need to speak out against violence against women, because our gender is to blame — check.
Ah, so the blame rests squarely on men... kinda like how the blame for World War One was laid on Germany? My question is where the Male version of Versailles was held (and when)...
Not Lindsey Graham. He’s missing two essential ingredients
I have never been capable of rape, but should anyone rape one of my loved ones, I am extremely capable of murder.
Oh, my. Andrea Dworkin has risen from the grave.
Ping.
Waiting for local news to come on.
What ever happened to assault with a friendly weapon
I will never rape a women. I am way more likely to kill someone than sexually abuse another human.
This guy has issues.
About 40 years ago we started "speaking out against violence," rather than dangling the perpetrators from trees. How's that working out so far?