Monday, November 19, 2007

This is why boys need to be raised to understand that women are humans, and not just recepticals for semen, AND why we all need to be raised to understand that sex is not a bad thing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071119/ap_on_re_us/boys_rape;_ylt=Av_bbQnNtZL1PHzMBlFHr.NH2ocAI don't know if the girl in this story is a victim or telling a lie to save herself. But, really, either way, she is a victim. If she was raped, she is a victim. If she took part in completely consensual sex, she is a victim. Why? Because she feels she has to lie about it, because she believes her decision to have sex will get her into trouble. Granted, these kids are entirely too young to be having sex. (Yes, even a crazy liberal like me draws the line somewhere.) But this has happened before... women, especially teenage and college age women, feel that after they decided to have sex, they are dirty, they did something wrong. So they lie, because suddenly it's okay. Being raped is not a woman's fault. Choosing to take part in a consensual sexual activity can label someone a slut, a whore, and ruin a young woman's life.Something is seriously amiss in our culture if rape is a better avenue to travel.If she was raped, something is seriously wrong. Rape is wrong. There is something wrong when the University of Vermont does a study and finds at least a fourth of men in the school have committed rape, but didn't know it. We are all taught that rape is a stranger lurking in the alleys. Anything else is debatable, loses power, and ultimately makes men feel that they have freedom to do what they wish with our bodies, and makes women feel that certain types of violations are okay and normal.

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