US judge prompts outrage after saying: ‘If she didn’t want sex, her body should have just shut down’

[caseymoz]

9. I'm not so sure...

My dad would say the same thing and he definitely didn't feel hate about it (or maybe didn't know the difference). He wasn't a hick either. He finished high school, was in the army enlisted in military intelligence, had some college and was corporate executive with a six-figure income.

No, he thought it was a fact, never checked it; never had a moral authority in the Catholic Church tell him it was wrong; distrusted medical authorities as corrupt and uninterested; and saw progressive and women's groups as, if not immoral, then untrustworthy on the subject.

Notice how distrust and suspicion play out there? Church teachings with Satan a deceiver behind the fight for good and evil doesn't help with that. So he's gone on believing this his entire life, and likely still does. I think his POV was actually typical in the Catholic Community. And my brothers are the same way and they both have college degrees.

The difference might be that this guy's a judge, but if the same walls of suspicion are up, and if there's the same dereliction in the authorities he does trust, you'll hear things like this. They think it's totally ordinary and look at you uncomprehending when you say they have any hatred toward women.

You might call this hatred. Fact is, if you actually do feel hatred all the time, always have, and that's all you know, how do you know it's hatred? Compare that to what you feel when somebody kills your children. There, you know your new emotion is hatred because you didn't feel it before. For something like this, though, it's been a constant in their emotional environment. It's why slavery wasn't considered wrong until the 19th century. Good people learned early to live with it and never noticed.

What I thought when I heard Todd Aikin was "Hi Dad." My father's probably even mystified as to why the Aikin didn't win.

I understand the feeling of being pulled back in time. I really thought this would be settled decades ago. How do you communicate the wrongness of this to people who are conditioned to be numb to it, and distrust your objection?