Any woman who gets raped was asking for it, dressed for it, encouraged it, wanted it.

[HopeHoops]

WHOA! I just had a GOP moment there. Sorry.

Why the HELL do they try to shift the blame to the victims? And they wonder why women are running away from the GOP.

[SouthernLiberal]

1. It's hardly new

I was raised a Catholic. Until the middle of 7th grade, I went to a catholic school. There, discussion about sex were limited. We were advised that if a man tried to have 'relations' with us, we should try to make him kill us. That's so we could go straight to heaven.

It wasn't until high school, when I was getting my religious instruction in evening classes, that all was made clear. If a man committed rape, it was certainly a sin. A mortal sin, even. But to be raped was two sins - sex outside of marriage, and tempting a man into mortal sin. The teacher argued that a man would incapable of raping a woman who had not enticed him.

I don't believe any of the girls in that class ever came back.

I'd kind of hoped that we'd grow out of this, but I guess I was wrong.

[HopeHoops]

2. As far as I'm concerned, it's never the woman's fault. And I'm a guy.

[HockeyMom]

4. So a 2 year old baby girl enticed a rapist?

90 year old invalids? I know they said this in catholic school because I heard it too, but I didn't sit there silent as a teenager. Those were the exact questions I asked. I was told to NOT QUESTION.

Oh, stopped asking questions as I went out the door. Problem is that we now have legislators trying to force these kinds of views on society.

When do we start burning witches again?

[HopeHoops]

7. A local 71 year old is on trial now for raping four kids, 3, 4, 10, and 12ish at the time.

He got away with it for six years. I hope he enjoys what's left of his life sitting in a jail cell.

[SouthernLiberal]

13. We weren't silent, either

But we could not even get the teacher to say that a child below the 'age of reason' (we were taught that was 7), a child so young that they could not sin, would not be responsible for her rape.

But by that age, I was pretty used to being told things that were not true. Two of my father's uncles were priests (one of them a missionary bishop), and they often told me that the things the sisters in school taught us about religion were not correct catholic doctrine.

Of course, I eventually realized that I did not believe anything any church representative told me to believe.

[HockeyMom]

14. Exactly

[whistler162]

3. or an Assange supporter one!

[The Traveler]

5. OK ... please reference

The EXACT wording of the charges against Julian Assange, Please reference the EXACT description of the Swedish law Assange is suspected of violating. Please explain how those statements relate to the usual definition of rape, as understood in America.

And if you cannot do these things, please quit slandering this man.

Trav

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. Why do they blame the victims? Elementary, my dear HopeHoops...

Because they're so often the perpetrators.

Rape.
Political Corruption.
Insider Trading.

You name it, and chances are it was a Republican doing it.

[hamsterjill]

8. Winner!!!!!

I believe you are exactly right.

[treestar]

9. RW Republican men may be afraid they are guilty of rape

They might remember some of their dates. They don't want to be liable to the charge and are afraid they could be. They may realize they are not in control of themselves if women dress a certain way and are afraid they can't stay in control. And of course it's the woman's fault (in their minds).

[HopeHoops]

10. If they've got children, it was at least unresponsive rape.

Does anyone seriously think a Republican guy could please a woman?

[treestar]

11. They don't want that to be a necessity

Sex is about what they want/need and the wife should have no say - and it's about continuing his line and proving his masculinity. Pleasing the wife? Bosh!

[HopeHoops]

12. "Pleasing the wife" is my primary objective. What good is it without doing that?