I *kinda* see edk's viewpoint as it certainly can not hurt in anyway, to educate women on rape and how to possibly, maybe, potentially, lower the chances of it happening to them. He was not implying that she caused her own rape, he seemed to just be saying that it can only be beneficial for parents to educate kids or society to educate women on rape.
Certain educational ideas are my kids both know the real words for penis and vagina (not hoo hoo and pee pee) so that if someone ever touched them in those areas, there would be no doubt what they meant when they reported it. But, would that prevent it or just make it easier to prosecute the perpetrator? I guess it could help prevent it if the child had a discussion with an adult of where they were touched and that therefore ended the abuse before it got to rape. Also, you can teach your kids certain ways to fight back if they are pinned down like kneeing the man and screaming and kicking and running away and just the simple definition of what rape is so they can identify if it is happening to them. Like how you teach your kids that strangers can kidnap them.. same principal.. teach them that people they know and love can rape them and how wrong that is and how important it is for them to report that.
But, when it comes down it, you really can't prevent and/or prepare for it 100%. You can be with a guy that you think is nice and sweet. And the next minute, he has you on the ground with your arms pinned behind your head and you are fighting with all of your strength to get him off of you. But, you are a small, weak teenage girl and he's a 250 pound marine. What prevented rape in this case? My friend heard me screaming as she was near us so he stopped. Had she not been there, I would've been raped. That was the closest I ever came to rape and it scared the freakin crap out of me. It's such a helpless feeling as a woman and I have so much sympathy for any woman that has been through that.
Certain educational ideas are my kids both know the real words for penis and vagina (not hoo hoo and pee pee) so that if someone ever touched them in those areas, there would be no doubt what they meant when they reported it. But, would that prevent it or just make it easier to prosecute the perpetrator? I guess it could help prevent it if the child had a discussion with an adult of where they were touched and that therefore ended the abuse before it got to rape. Also, you can teach your kids certain ways to fight back if they are pinned down like kneeing the man and screaming and kicking and running away and just the simple definition of what rape is so they can identify if it is happening to them. Like how you teach your kids that strangers can kidnap them.. same principal.. teach them that people they know and love can rape them and how wrong that is and how important it is for them to report that.
But, when it comes down it, you really can't prevent and/or prepare for it 100%. You can be with a guy that you think is nice and sweet. And the next minute, he has you on the ground with your arms pinned behind your head and you are fighting with all of your strength to get him off of you. But, you are a small, weak teenage girl and he's a 250 pound marine. What prevented rape in this case? My friend heard me screaming as she was near us so he stopped. Had she not been there, I would've been raped. That was the closest I ever came to rape and it scared the freakin crap out of me. It's such a helpless feeling as a woman and I have so much sympathy for any woman that has been through that.
