On Sep 7, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > >> Admonishing women in bars to be vigilant against becoming a victim makes >> sense. >> >
Sigh. What I actually wrote was "On a serious note, letting the cop off easy was wrong. Admonishing women in bars to be vigilant against becoming a victim makes sense." > "If you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would have happened > to you," > > Is not 'admonishing women to be vigilant in bars', it's telling the victim > that she's responsible for the crime that was committed on her,just because > she was female, in the bar, and happened to be an acquaintance of the man who > criminally assaulted her. > > It's perpetuating a male-centered culture of rape, part and parcel of letting > the fucking cop off like that, and barely one step above making women wear > burkas because the men go wild at the sight of a female form. Yeah. It's just like that. Pfft. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
