RE: Maybe People Should Not Look Up To YouTube Atheist
December 10, 2013 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2013 at 9:10 pm by The Valkyrie.)
(December 10, 2013 at 8:08 pm)Zazzy Wrote: @ Bad Wolf-
Why would anyone shout at you? You're entirely right. Given that most people are raped by people they know rather than strangers, the home precautions only help protect you against stranger rapes. There is no way to 100% sure- and what's really odd is that sometimes men who are usually good guys commit sexual assaults- usually under the influence of drugs/alcohol. They can't believe they did it. The victim can't believe they did it. Everyone is shocked. Now they're labeled sex offenders forever.
How do you prevent THAT?
I read an article years ago, and it was from an account from a magazine in the mid to late 80s so I can't find it, unfortunately.
It was by a reporter who attended an open-air concert.
Some distance from him was a girl in her early 20s sitting on her boyfriend's shoulders so she could see the concert. A nearby guy kept encouraging her to take her top off, which she finally did when her boyfriend encouraged her.
After that the reporter said the mood of the crowd changed slowly until the girl was basically pulled from her boyfriend's shoulders, manhandled and then, eventually gangraped. The reporter said it was like a pack mentality came over the onlookers and guys just started to join in.
He stated, quite honestly, that he was overcome by the same pack mentality and may have joined in if he hadn't been so far away. And this was a young man with a wife and kids.
What this says about the mentality of people I'm not entirely sure. I just found it a fascinating, and scary, read.
(December 10, 2013 at 8:04 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: I'm gunna regret this cause i'm gunna get shouted at but
I think you can reduce your chance of getting raped in the same way you can reduce your chance of being burgled. Locking all your windows and doors, installing an alarm and a guard dog will reduce the chance of being burgled but it won't prevent it. In the same way, not getting drunk off your face in a nightclub and staggering out into a dark ally on your own will help reduce the chance of being raped. You can take all precautions and still be raped. There isn't anything a woman can do to prevent rape.
Looking both ways before crossing the road, reduces the chance of being hit by a car, but it doesn't prevent it
Sticking to the speed limit while you are driving, reduces the chance of being in an accident, but doesn't prevent it
Following a game rangers instructions on a safari, reduces the chances of you being crushed by an elephant or mauled by a lion, but it doesn't prevent it.
And, of course, there are the old women who are raped in their own homes by intruders.
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