Comments on: Who is guilty? http://ethicallyspeaking.blogsome.com/2008/02/16/who-is-guilty/ Closed. The boat sank. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:09:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Angie Bowen http://ethicallyspeaking.blogsome.com/2008/02/16/who-is-guilty/#comment-230 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:10 +0000 http://ethicallyspeaking.blogsome.com/2008/02/16/who-is-guilty/#comment-230 I think it's a very common and horrifying trend that rape is becoming more and more acceptable. All of a sudden lately we have articles popping up everywhere talking about rape myths and how "true rape" is when a woman is brutally attacked by a stranger, anything else is just disagreements among acquaintances. We now have "gray rape" and most college students who are date raped don't think that they've been raped because it was an acquaintance who committed the crime. Ask a room full of people if rape is wrong and most likely 100% of them will say "yes, of course it's wrong". Then start going into specifics such as "a husband forces his wife" or "a woman withdraws consent after intercourse has started and the man continues anyway" and suddenly a good percentage of the people in the room will say "well, that's not rape". I think it’s a very common and horrifying trend that rape is becoming more and more acceptable. All of a sudden lately we have articles popping up everywhere talking about rape myths and how “true rape” is when a woman is brutally attacked by a stranger, anything else is just disagreements among acquaintances.

We now have “gray rape” and most college students who are date raped don’t think that they’ve been raped because it was an acquaintance who committed the crime.

Ask a room full of people if rape is wrong and most likely 100% of them will say “yes, of course it’s wrong”. Then start going into specifics such as “a husband forces his wife” or “a woman withdraws consent after intercourse has started and the man continues anyway” and suddenly a good percentage of the people in the room will say “well, that’s not rape”.

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