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-- No therapist worth their hourly fee will simply say "You're right, you are a total victim. You're off the hook." The whole point of therapy is to accept that individuals are responsible for their own problems - not mommy or daddy.--

Or the nuns at church? Aliska goes to chirstian therapy and what she got was just that - the nuns told us the wrong things and woman are somehow less than men. For staters I doubt the nuns told them exactly what they took from the lessons. Even today in religious school the girls are warned to be modest and cherish their bodies as gifts from God - don't tempt the boys for they are easily tempted. The boys are taught the same lesson just in different words: Don't lust after the flesh and respect woman, resist temptation. She just seems angry and wants to find somewhere to place the blame rather than see the error in her own ways.

Even today in religious school the girls are warned to be modest and cherish their bodies as gifts from God - don't tempt the boys for they are easily tempted.

Yep. Girls are the ones who end up pregnant, so they are the ones who need to say "no."

Civilization is built upon the woman saying "no" and forcing men to subject themselves to marriage and other civilizing factors.

Look, many of the nuns who raised me were ignorant women who came from very deprived ethnic/immigrant backgrounds. It took me a while to understand that they were only human and they did the best they could with what they had. I don't have any memories of being raised to believe women were inferior to men. We were often taught that we had more self-control than men and so must take care of our own chastity. Pretty sensible to me after all these years.

Does anyone remember being asked to sit on a telephone book if you got in a crowded back seat of a car and were forced to sit on a boy's lap? You've got to have a sense of humor about this stuff!!