From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 20:39:43 MDT
On 24 Sep 2002 at 20:10, Zloduska wrote:
>
> [Joe Dees]
> I have carefully considered those points, and am willing to move on;
> but only in a world where the victim is expected to curtsey to her
> rapist or be blamed for the crime should I be expected to turn a third
> cheek after being bitchslapped twice. I slap back.
>
> Thanks for listening, but don't you think the victim/rapist comparison
> is going just a _tad_ too far? This is the internet. It's a bit
> insensitive to compare a flame-war to being raped. Have you ever been
> sexually assaulted by a man before?
>
> And since I know you've done your share for women's rights (by helping
> the pro-choice movement), you know should realize that in this world
> (esp. Islamic countries) women often ARE blamed for the crimes
> committed against them. Hell, in some third-world countries, women
> are stoned and/or raped just as punishment for the crimes of their
> male siblings, which is really fucking sick.
>
> Sorry, that was my reactionary feminist statement of the day.
>
I know about what is done to women in Islamic countries; all I had to do
was read
http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/index.html
and
http://www.secularislam.org/women/index.htm
But I DO feel that there has been a tinge of blame-the-victim going
around, simply because the victim chose to effectively fight back.
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