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In reply to the discussion: The college class on avoiding rape. Please move on, nothing to see here. [View all]ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)I've tried to engage you in conversation twice now and somehow you've managed to read some sort of excitable emotional response in each encounter. I assure you that no such emotion exists.
My statement still applies if the criminal is aware that his behavior is criminal and engages in it with malice aforethought. Criminals willfully engage in their behaviors even in the face of consequence and damage to others. However, as per my conversation with Tsiyu, the picture becomes less clear when, as I am under the increasing suspicion, our educational system is failing at the secondary level to properly educate young people on rape and its direct consequence. It is quite another thing to say you can educate someone who has not yet been or has been poorly educated in something. My statement was made from a presumption that this education was happening effectively at this level (as it had for people of my age cohort and before) where that may no longer be the case.
No man on this board thinks that feminists want to send him to a re-education camp. They support women's issues, they may self-identify as feminists of whatever stripe they may wear, but they are obviously going to have their own personal concerns they may want to address. And there is precisely nothing wrong with that.
They were responding to an inartful implication of the statement made in the "famous picture", and from what I saw, the concern was to address this implication, not to throw water on the main message. Your mileage may vary. Really don't feel that further discussion of that will lead to any more uncharted ground being covered.
Look, no hard feelings. I've been on this board long enough to know that with certain topics tempers can flare and emotions can run high, which is why I choose to approach those topics from more of a rationalist standpoint. I feel there is more room for discussion and less opportunity for flameouts if I disconnect my emotion chip for these.
Have a good one.