Your entire line of reasoning is painfully desperate, sorry.Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
Your entire line of reasoning is painfully desperate, sorry.
People create culture. It doesn't exist without the community.
Seems I was lucky enough not to stumble into those areas where this repression occurs. Same in other countries also. Must have been a long series of happy coincidences.
So continuing with this logic....
The US is the most sexually repressed nation in the West.
The US has a high rape rate.
Therefore, rape is caused by sexual repression and people who rape are sexually repressed.
Now... let's name the people who are "sexually repressed" and those will be the people committing the rapes in this country. Right?
If that sounds silly to you -- it is.
Last edited by Josie; 04-06-15 at 05:38 PM.
I've tried to follow your line of thought and the obvious question that arises is ... How is it you've been able to overcome this terrible sexually repressive culture? ... did you say it was the worst in the world?
"One very rewarding opposition strategy has always been to make the mundane look unsavory and draw distinctions with the same behavior by their own team."
Maybe someday, people will learn not to believe these pundits in journalism.
Does true journalism even exist any more?
Nope, I didn't, actually. Yet another one who apparently can't read.
The "therefore" is not part of my argument, and would only make sense to someone with a painfully simplistic view of sociology that is basically impossible to correct without going back to middle school social studies.
What's amazing about it is that we have already discussed the main factor they share too, and somehow you couldn't make that out either.
This is an incredible thread, seriously. But then, threads about rape always are.
No, the "therefore" came from your own words:
You seem to be having a hard time discussing this without playground insults.
Here's Senator Kirsten Gillibrand back on the 24th warning that we should not blame the " victim " even after it was shown her story was false.
Gillibrand: Avoid "victim blaming" in UVA rape story
But Gillibrand said the ire over the case shouldn't shift blame onto victims, who already have a hard time coming forward to authorities.
"Victim blaming or shining the spotlight on her for coming forward is not the right approach," Gillibrand said on "The Capitol Pressroom," a public radio show in Albany. "In fact, what we have to focus on is how do we keep these campuses safe? How do we have better trained personnel on campuses so they can tell a survivor what her options are and so they can have all the facts?"
I wonder what Sen Kirsten Gillbrand thinks now ? Or if she still thinks we shouldn't blame the victim ( the girl who lied )
Also the Rolling Stone Reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely " apologized " but not to the boys that were charged with rape.
" If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else ? "
Ronald Reagan
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