Bella Dea wrote:There is no grey area. Either you rape someone or you don't. Plain and simple.
Bella, you're being fixated by the wrong point....again, and I was hoping I wasn't going to have to repeat myself every single post or else someone was going to think I was "pro-rape" or something....but no one is arguing your point that rape is wrong, it is bad, you are either raped, or not raped.
Let me say it one more time in such a way that it won't have to be belabored YET again....
RAPE IS WRONG. RAPE IS BAD. NO ONE DESERVES TO GET RAPED. YOU ARE EITHER RAPED, OR NOT RAPED, THERE IS NO GRAY AREA!
ok then....what I (and I think kicky ) are bringing up is the responsibility of not only the man (assuming he's the rapist) but also the woman.
No, I would not give a crack head a diamond necklace. I would not let a baby play with a stick of dynamite. I would not dance naked in front of a man not knowing this is giving him the signals I'm willing to have sex with him.
If, for some reason I did change my mind, I'd have a damn good reason. If I got attacked and raped walking down the street, I'd be totally innocent. If I got raped after dancing naked in front of a guy, I'd still have been raped (see above disclaimer) but I would also realize that I had done something I shouldn't have that set the wheel in motion.
To substitue the word rape with getting beaten, you can say the same thing...you are either beaten or your are not beaten...there is no gray area.
However, if a person, male or female makes a choice to go somewhere and do something that will get them beaten with almost 99.9% of the time, then yes, I would say that the person beaten has some blame in getting beaten.
Please don't bring up the no one deserves to get raped thing again. Someone doesn't deserve to get beaten either, that's why you avoid situations where it can happen.
AND.....I'm not talking about the vicious pychopathic date rape either, the guy who knew what he was going to do hours before.