Comments on: Rape Just Ain’t What It Used To Be

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:56:52 +0000

Iano, I dopn;t think this clip illustrales anyhthing your tryna… illustrate?

he mumbled a lot.

By: Mold

Mold — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:22:59 +0000

Let’s just say many older women can attest to the marital right of husbands. These elders, once in their cups, will tell stories that make your hair curl. That was then, we can make a better today and a wonderful tomorrow.

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:28:58 +0000

How much do you want to bet that at one point he forced a woman (girlfriend/wife/whatever) into having sex with him, and he just doesn’t want to accept the burden of being a rapist?

How many guys in legislative positions do you think have forced women into sexual acts? Are those the men that are going to fix legislation to protect women from being raped? No, because they’re not going to penalize themselves. They deserve sex, after all.

(P.S. Does reading stuff like this make you want to scream? Because I do.)

By: False Flag Operative

False Flag Operative — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:03:06 +0000

And this guy is a democrat. With “allies” like these, who needs Republicans?

Most of your Democrats in the South tend to be more conservative than your Democrats in the Northeast and West.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:30:28 +0000

There’s this very complex process of denial that men like Henry seem to go through. Said denial allows them to sleep at night.

Confronting the stark reality of rape means confronting the fact that the world is a seriously screwed-up place. And we can’t have that. So the issue gets compartmentalized into something that only happens to “shameless hussies.”

By: Mold

Mold — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:26:38 +0000

The Good Old Days weren’t. I love writing that. Anyhow, he probably did learn just that. I am roughly half his age and I can attest to being schooled in the same idea. Look at the response of the woman who was “?” by Strom Thurmond. Most modern women would have him fearing criminal prosecution.

By: denelian

denelian — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:56:25 +0000

BY DEFINITION, at least the one he seems to be using, a married woman is NOT CHASTE. she HAS SEX WITH HER HUSBAND. Chaste is not having sex.

also, and i noted this in the email i sent him a couple days ago (that i have not recieved a response from)… rape happens when one person says “no”. male of female. at any point. i’m kissing my guy, i dont want to do more, he forces me to do more, i have been raped. no matter how many times we have had sex before. even if we are married. even if i am “nekkid”

and, btw, i also told him how godDAMNED insutling this whole attitude should be TO MEN. because, you get what they are saying right? men are NOT CAPABLE of controling themselves when they see ankles! Men are NOT CAPABLE of making moral judgements! Men are NOT CAPABLE of parsing a simple declarative sentence! MEN ARE NOT CAPABLE OF BEING ADULTS. thats what this whole “but its her fault she was a slut you didn’t have any choice but to rape her” bullshit is about.
note how hard it is to get some people to wrap their heads around a woman raping a man (which is difficult but possible). every time i say something like that, i get back “can’t rape the willing!”. because all men want all sex all the time.
(except my boyfriend. sigh.)

so, if i get raped, its *MY* fault because i am a dirty dirty slut AND ALSO because how dare i expect a man to be responsible for himself? (and this is true. my step dad molested me as a teen, and i kept being told that it was my fault because i was “too pretty” for a FIFTY THREE YEAR OLD MAN to NOT molest me)

By: Astraea

Astraea — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:40:01 +0000

Daniel, that’s exactly what I got out of it after I read more and watched the video. He’s saying that the rape exception is a problem because it’s vague. Whether he means that it’s vague because definitions change or it’s vague because now we don’t know what rape is, he’s still a misogynist asshole who thinks legislators should get to decide when a woman’s been sufficiently traumatized to deserve an abortion.

By: tenderhooligan

tenderhooligan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:27:57 +0000

Reading this, it seems to me that Dougie here thinks that rape really isn’t so bad no matter how it happens. I just don’t know what to do about attitudes like that.

By: Rosehiptea

Rosehiptea — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:03:29 +0000

No matter how long I try to put myself in his mindset I still don’t get it. Which is probably a good thing, but still. How does a woman not being “chaste” make being raped any different?

(Not that I support his views on abortion anyway of course, but… I don’t understand why he can’t see how horrific that is.)