Just two dudes, talkin’ ’bout rape on the Men’s Rights subreddit

*Barf* I’m trying to think of something to say in response, and failing. Just, *barf*.

“The cute girls on the volleyball team” is so bizarrely over-specific. Who worries about being sexually assaulted while playing volleyball?

This is what I was flailing for earlier: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/linking_sexual_abuse_to_obesit.html

Maybe those fatties are so sure they could be raped because they have been already.

And while I was searching for that, I found this piece of grossness:

http://www.thewire.com/culture/2014/03/princeton-mom-proposes-surgical-intervention-single-obese-women/358747/

Ugh.

Ain’t that classy?

Fucking assholes.

*Jonathan

X_X

Wow. Where does one start?

Rape is a violent act, designed to terrorize and deeply damage those who are raped, for the pleasure and entertainment of the rapist. I have been raped four times in my life, once even pulled off my horse, for the ha-ha’s of some very ugly men. I was told by the police, the one time I reported it, that *I* must have done something to egg the guys on, even though, for that one, I was only sitting on a friends porch, playing my guitar. In a blue work shirt and jeans. Oh, and that does not include all the times when, as a little girl, I was groped and men exposed themselves to me. Those, according to family and police, were also my fault.

I never went through the horror of reporting it again.

Sorry. I just HATE these guys. With every fiber of my being. Fantasize about rape, my ass.

Don’t you also love how they continuously downplay and minimize rape of women, yet rape of men is absolutely horrid?

To decent human beings, rape is a horrid thing to happen to all genders. To MRAs, everything horrid that happens to women is either no big deal or their own fault. And they wonder why their little campus groups get protested.

@Samantha, That’s terrible, those poor kids.

About 10 years ago, I found out that someone in the labor movement that I had worked with and respected had been physically and sexually abusing his adult partner and sexually abusing his two children with his former partner. It really shakes you up to find those abusive a-holes so close to home.

The worst part is that when he got out of prison he was completely re-embraced in his little corner of the labor movement, while his former partner was harassed out of her job by those same people. They thought she should have kept quiet about it, rather than tearing down a “good union man.” O_o

The worst part is that when he got out of prison he was completely re-embraced in his little corner of the labor movement, while his former partner was harassed out of her job by those same people. They thought she should have kept quiet about it, rather than tearing down a “good union man.” O_o

But that is the way it often happens – the abuser, usually male, gets welcomed back into the fold and the abused, both female and male, gets shunned and kicked out.

As far as the Pagan Elder/musician goes, the adults who did not listen seem to want us all to be compassionate to the poor guy and work for his healing. What about the kids?????

Sometimes I think that this species is just too stupid to live. Sigh. That is just me being frustrated and angry.

Oh, and thanks for the kind sympathy. I really do appreciate it, and hope that all the kids and now grown up kids get some help and satisfaction.

blockquote>Don’t you also love how they continuously downplay and minimize rape of women, yet rape of men is absolutely horrid?

Silly person. Do you not understand that the mra types and men in general are the only real people? The rest of us, women and the men who are actually human beings of heart and mind, are merely paper cut-outs who need to learn our places and take it when they choose to dish it out. So of COURSE rape is only real when it happens to them! And, doncha know, it is the women who do the raping. How is THAT for logic?

Bleah! Retch!

Maybe those fatties are so sure they could be raped because they have been already.

I’ve read several anecdotal accounts of women who have either gained a lot of weight as a kind of “armor” against unwanted attentions, or been anorexic out of fear of their own developing hips and breasts (which spell S-E-X to onlookers!), so there is a lot of validity to this “maybe”.

Of course, the idea that weight problems and eating disorders are often rooted in early sexual abuse is another one that hasn’t occurred to these (pocket) rocket scientists.

At least a handful of times a year I read about a man breaking into a home and robbing and raping a woman 70+ years old; many even as old as in their 90s. How exactly would the pea-brain MRAs explain those cases?

Or babies. In diapers. Seriously, WTF???

On that note Cloudiah, I saw this video on Jezebel. It’s about the way rape culture effects male rape/abuse victims. To any MRAs who might have wandered over, this is the right way to talk about male victims. Note the lack of misogyny! Even though it uses dark ironic humor to make the point, it’s tough to watch and might be triggering for abuse survivors.