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intaglio

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6. Thanks, because this needed saying
Fri Nov 8, 2013, 05:26 AM
Nov 2013

Mind you to a certain group on DU this is video is "Stupid and insulting," and that the only purpose is to mock other "useful" PSAs. Of course no dissent is allowed from this view within this group because those who dissent too loudly are banned.

Within the comments are claims that ordinary guys walking down a street don't look at women and think "Shall I rape her?" This ignores the fact that drunken, ordinary guys do think that a woman is "asking for it" and will justify their actions by saying "...well, she was dressed (provocatively*) " and "... she didn't say no or scream or anything," and the ever popular "... we were both drunk and I thought she said 'yes',"

It ignores the fact that ordinary guys (and rarely women) rape their children or the children of their relatives or their relatives or the children of their friends or their pupils because "... I thought they were flirting with me," or "... s/he was just so beautiful," as well as the fraudulent "I loved her (or him)".

It ignores the ordinary business people who are certain that if someone wants to be treated as an equal or wants a promotion they will be willing to "pay" for it with sex.

It ignores the ordinary couples where one rapes another because it is the "right" of the rapist to have sex with the victim.




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* used instead of "she was dressed like an s word" and ".... like a w word"

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