@Lash,
Lash wrote:I don’t think people with money and power should get away with preying on the rest of us.
Needless to say, I agree with you completely.
This social problem is more widespread than many people would be willing to believe, and sometimes the victims are male. The words "Penn State" should ring a bell, for example. At the time of the scandal, one of Sandusky's victims was a senior in high school. Once he was outed by his high-school coach, the grandmother of one of the Penn State football players walked up to the victim's mother and told her, "Now my grandson's football team is going to lose, and it's all your son's fault!" The victim was so badly bullied by classmates who blamed him for Paterno's firing that he quit the school before he could graduate. If Franco Harris had stopped whining over the firing of Paterno long enough to make a public appearance at the high school to plead with the victim's classmates to stop bullying him, that would have accomplished a great deal as a noble act of compassion. But, no, he was too busy whining about "JoPa" to help a victim who was being cruelly victimized again.
I know this has nothing to do with politics, but it burns me to this day. The mistreatment of rape victims (male and female) extends far beyond the realm of our conniving, hypocritical politicians.
By the way, I have a personal reason for being concerned (and angry) about rapists: On two separate occasions my sister was nearly raped.
