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Madonna: I was raped at knifepoint - held up at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop
Guardian.com ^ | Saturday 5 October 2013 10.02 EDT | Shane Hickey

Posted on 04/02/2014 4:03:07 PM PDT by tom h

Madonna has detailed how she was raped not long after she moved to New York City at the age of 19, in a revealing account of her life to date.

In an article for Harper's Bazaar magazine, the singer said she was forced on to the roof of a building at knifepoint and attacked. The first-person account, which accompanied a fashion shoot, spans Madonna's life from growing up in the US midwest and moving away from home, to her marriages and children.

"New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time," she wrote.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: entertainment; harpersbazaar; madonna; michigan; newyork; newyorkcity; sluts
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To: tom h

Perhaps we need to hear from Whoopi Goldberg who is an expert on this sort of thing and no doubt will given she has a daily chat show platform.


41 posted on 04/02/2014 5:49:27 PM PDT by xp38
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To: tom h

I thought being raped or mugged was New York’s way of saying “welcome”.


42 posted on 04/02/2014 5:51:50 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: tom h

Bill Clinton is a rapist, but that doesn’t stop the accolades and swooning over him.


43 posted on 04/02/2014 5:58:52 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: LegendHasIt

Only way anyone could rape Madonna would have to be faster at pulling off their pants.


44 posted on 04/02/2014 6:23:57 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: tom h

It might explain some of her behaviour.


45 posted on 04/02/2014 6:26:06 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: varyouga

...most pretty girls I’ve met were sexually assaulted in some way. Most often as children and the crime is typically covered up by family

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You must live in a really depraved town. That is just absurd.


46 posted on 04/02/2014 6:41:36 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: tom h
She has become very tiresome.
Still has an insatiable need for attention.
47 posted on 04/02/2014 7:03:47 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: tom h

...and you’re still blaming the victim.


48 posted on 04/02/2014 7:23:33 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: nascarnation

U of Michigan is a liberal cesspool


49 posted on 04/02/2014 8:47:19 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: tom h
Madonna: I was raped at knifepoint - held up at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop

Bill Clinton.

50 posted on 04/02/2014 8:54:56 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: X-spurt
"Only way anyone could rape Madonna would have to be faster at pulling off their pants."

Now that gave me a good laugh! Thanks for brightening my evening.

51 posted on 04/02/2014 9:27:02 PM PDT by tom h
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To: Dagnabitt
"...and you’re still blaming the victim."

No. But it's clear that you have the intellectual depth of a flea.

No girl ever deserves rape, but some girls are more likely to be raped and should recognize their role in the fact that it happened.

The slut that wears short-shorts into the bar in the rough part of town is far more likely to be raped than the nice girl who actually does knit, read the Bible, and stay home at night. If the slut is raped the perp needs to go to jail but if her father, or some other man, doesn't chew her butt out for acting stupidly, then she is hopeless indeed.

I've raised two daughters and I've told them since age 14 that they are responsible for making good decisions about men for the rest of their lives. Because bad decisions are more likely to lead to bad relationships, bad marriages, and -- yes -- rape. They don't deserve it, and the crime isn't less heinous. But their personal decisions did play a role.

And if you can't understand the nuance in the above, then I will politely refer you back to reading feminist blogs at the UC Berkeley website, writing adoring letters to Gloria Steinem, and watching TIVO'd reruns of Melissa Harris Perry on MSNBC.

52 posted on 04/02/2014 9:35:03 PM PDT by tom h
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To: Bigg Red
"...most pretty girls I’ve met were sexually assaulted in some way. Most often as children and the crime is typically covered up by family

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You must live in a really depraved town. That is just absurd."

The fellow must subscribe to the feminist notion of abuse, that anything a girl considers abusive is sexual abuse -- e.g., an unwanted kiss or a teenage boy that tries to slide his hand under her blouse.

That's not abuse -- that's learning about the world of men.

53 posted on 04/02/2014 9:37:53 PM PDT by tom h
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To: tom h

Yea but was she called Bossy.


54 posted on 04/02/2014 9:41:42 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: tom h
You seem to have given a great deal of thought to "sluts" and various rape scenarios.

There's counseling available for that.

55 posted on 04/02/2014 9:54:48 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: tom h
I won't believe for a minute that Madonna was innocently knitting and reading her Bible, with a glass of warm milk at her side, when the dude pulled out the knife and forced her to the roof.

I'm not aware of anything she could have been doing which would ever justify such a crime...

56 posted on 04/02/2014 11:43:02 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these here Boncentration Bamps!)
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To: sargon

Madonna says she was raped at knife point.
My question is how big a knife did she hold
on the guy to get him to do it?


57 posted on 04/02/2014 11:48:06 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: LegendHasIt

“And I loved every moment of it!”


58 posted on 04/03/2014 3:33:47 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Take out the trash)
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To: Bigg Red

No, just a town that attracts the prettiest women from around the world.

It happens far more often than most people imagine


59 posted on 04/03/2014 4:54:55 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: tom h

You are probably right about that definition. I have seen ridiculous numbers quoted by the man-haters — something like 1/3 of all females have been sexually assaulted. And, yes, it includes being called a name. With the current nonsense about the word “bossy”, I suppose they will include that as an assault.

As to your examples, when I was a teenaged girl, we called that getting fresh. Your first example would have been excused, whereas the second would mean no second date with that guy.


60 posted on 04/03/2014 7:20:38 AM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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