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In reply to the discussion: All this talk about rape is making me... [View all]bettyellen
(47,209 posts)74. There isn't anything in this OP We haven't seen on DU before
But we've never seen it all coming from one poster. Many men here agree with at least part of this crap. They're alerted on and nothing happens.
That- and the amazing slap downs in this thread that were already there- was why even though it repulsed me, I voted to leave it alone.
Many men here have made at least one of the arguments or ruminated about the issue in exactly the same fashion as this OP, and deeply offend many women here but the DU community allows it to stand.
We don't give a fuck about women and allow the conversation to be dominated by men who -at best- all LIE and say we claim rapists are the majority or default position of men.
Unless sexist bullshit becomes a violation of TOS violation here, this is what the mods leave us wallowing in. There ain't anything in this OP we haven't seen "left alone" here before. I know Will Pitt never noticed it, but many of us have.
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yup. and the fucker has so little respect for women, women that have been raped, he
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#34
a man feeling belittled so many men and women standing up for rape victims. he is doing his jab
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#78
he is smeering the offensiveness of rape in victims face. this person needs to delete or
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#37
I'd bet serious money that they are sockpuppets of the same RL person, and that that person
kestrel91316
Nov 2012
#45
they are probably pissed off men because some sexist got TOS. or a sock or whatever
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#54
well, golly gee, been talking about education for a good 24 hours without it sounding like
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#95
seriously? you have kids. you have yet to find a way to clealy teach you children the proper
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#99
that being said, I am ASTONISHED that so many "adults" cannot decipher such simple moral issues.
alp227
Nov 2012
#101
if rape was more common among men than it already was, we would not have these
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#200
Yes, I guess it does. I've told my sons that if a woman is drunk, she can't give consent. Period.
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#224
So... it's not rape if you coerced her by being utterly and insanely relentless?
Chorophyll
Nov 2012
#14
And imagine if gay, when young someone tried to drag me out of a bar once. I'm not
RKP5637
Nov 2012
#79
Then he (the gay man) should probably stop asking. Same goes for heterosexuals.
nomorenomore08
Dec 2012
#161
People also read about war and cannibalism and murder, but seldom aspire to do it.
nolabear
Nov 2012
#39
but, that is really a very good point and interesting. i like how obama did that.
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#133
well. If women want to be raped as so many imply, then men must want to as well.
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#201
that would have been in the 70's and 80's known as the bodice ripper. but, then, if you look at the
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#169
At the thrift store I work at I would say about half of the romance novels we have...
Odin2005
Dec 2012
#147
please be man enough to self delete your post. from the title on, it is offensive.
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#26
fuckin start, all this talk about rape..... that is fuckin sick. and clear what a perverts
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#31
the title is the creep all of any title i have seen. says a hell of a lot about the poster,
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#76
on another post someone made some remark about taking back this shit and making
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#202
so fuckin in your face, if you are a rape victim, the pig slaps you up across the head
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#42
cowards. all of them. and so much to play with the OP to offend all. but, wtf.... nt
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#58
men don't have to face this threat all the time. They don't have to think about their
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#203
and lets pity their sons. because people with these attitudes have a fucked up life. and that is
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#67
yup. image these men as parents that cannot tell the difference between rape, and not rape. sad
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#70
Serious question, and I want a serious answer. What if it was happening to you?
nolabear
Nov 2012
#36
Lack of consent is not consent. Coercion to force sex is rape. Rape is fucking rape. STOP.
rDigital
Nov 2012
#56
Looks like a hit and run poster. What exactly is "all this talk about rape"....
boston bean
Nov 2012
#65
In court, in support of child victims, I've heard defense attorneys raise some of these points.
JohnnyLib2
Nov 2012
#71
i am so glad that people are feeling the same thing from the post that i was.
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#97
ahhh, just us silly women being all emotional. uh hu. thanks guy for telling us silly women
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#100
Doesn't have to be in so many words. "Is this okay?" probably suffices.
nomorenomore08
Dec 2012
#195
I am assuming you're a man. Thank you for the man wisdom. Silly me. I've been a girl
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#205
the women that say no do not mean it enough? that would be legitimate rape from false rape.
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#107
demmi is not saying this. the poster copy and pasted something regie said. nt
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#115
repeatedly!?! What about telling boys if they molest someone's daughter their dad
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#206
Rapists tell the judge the woman consented. Even though the victim was screaming no.
boston bean
Nov 2012
#118
I am so fucking sick of this shit. Good fucking grief. I am so enraged by these people. I will
amywalk
Dec 2012
#136
These threads are ridiculous and your OP is pedantic, obtuse and insulting all at the same time.
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#143
Steve, why do you think quite a few men here claim they can't tell they have consent?
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#180
I really dont know what its about. On the one hand, at least half seem to be low post newbies who I
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#184
Ah, I never notice who is new. I think many who had respectful behavior modeled for them don't need
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#187
I remember a fucking JUDGE in Ohio or some place back in the midwest told a FIVE
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#209
really that disgusts me the most and makes clear it is an hostile OP to women. regardless if he
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#157
decency. hey all, honest, decency and ALL this is so easy. dont even have to think. little decency
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#162
You realize your little story about you and your wife is trivializing genuine marital/acquaintance
nomorenomore08
Dec 2012
#166
apparently, the OP finds categories of women to be good, bad, indifferent.
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#210
Reading your OP makes me sad that I am a man. Ugh, the "notches on the belt"
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#183
I'm right with you. Was totally creeped out and mortified for my gender. As
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#216