The full horror of rape is something I can’t believe everyone feels. Yet men can only feel the full horror of knowing that if they rape some woman they might go to jail and be raped themselves. Ask any man about rape and the conversation instantly turns to the question of men being unfairly convicted of rape they didn’t do.

PBS had a program showing how common it is for Western men to “vacation” in Cambodia and other Asian countries which have very poor people and no value of females. The creeps are taking advantage of these conditions to rape little girls for a small fee. Ah, how they love the Asian culture. I wish they could put those creeps in jail to get a taste of their own medicine, but it never happens.

damn, do I know what you mean. :-( it is so HARD to realize that we live in a rape culture. So hard to live with that every day.

But I am alarmed and disgusted when, every Halloween, kids come to my door who are much larger than I am (I’m average size, 5′6″). I assume they are in the 13-16 year range, and ought to be embarrassed to be still mooching. They could easily overpower a teacher my size. Possibly due to the hormones in food, they are becoming sexually mature at an earlier age, while emotional maturity continues to elude them.

I knew a boy who, in the sixth grade, raped a smaller girl. He was suspended from school, but his parents rewarded him by taking him to a much nicer country.

Didn’t you know that simply being female is a reason for wanting to be raped? The “date rape” drugs have been legal for a long time (some may be made illegal soon), so it isn’t necessary to get a woman drunk – just a few sips are all it takes to make her completely unconscious all night. I was raised to be extremely naive and trusting (just like that article, “When Violence Knocks and Politeness Answers”), because it’s so rude and unladylike to be at all suspicious. Predators can sense this vulnerability a mile away. I had never heard of such drugs at the age of 18, and didn’t know about them for many years after that, so I had absolutely no idea of what had happened to me until many years later.

Women who dress provocatively of course want to be raped, as well as girls who run away from home. Getting married means she agrees to rape by her husband, though not by other men. Ugly women obviously want to be raped, because they’re so desperate – “Who would wanna fuck HER?” The ugly teacher is herself guilty of rape because those poor boys couldn’t possibly want her, but the beautiful teacher is guilty because those poor boys couldn’t possibly resist her. The system is set up so that women cannot win.

Signing up for the military is a perfect sign that she needs to be raped. If she dares to blow the whistle on anything, rape plus murder is nearly assured, and the military is above the law so nothing is done about it. Contractors in Iraq are similarly free from the justice system.

In the Middle East, gang rape is an acceptable punishment for being so evil as to have a brother who commits a crime. After she is raped, the family will most likely kill her to preserve their “honor.” Going out without male owners is begging for rape, or at least severe harassment. (That is even true, to a lesser extent, in the West.) In the Congo, just existing is enough to warrant rape.

Anywhere women try to climb out of the box to which they have been assigned, such as working in a male-dominated field, rape is considered the ideal way to put them back in their place. I could go on forever, but it looks like I already have.