Do you get the feeling that these GOP guys who are always talking about rape might like the concept

[kimbutgar]

rape and may had raped women themselves in the past. Just saying. I know of no regular guy who ever talks about rape. It's kind of taboo. BUt these GOPers sure like their rape.

[madaboutharry]

1. I posted in another thread that the focus on rape is very weird.

[liberal N proud]

2. No doubt in my mind that is what they think

They see women as objects for their pleasure and that is all!

[madashelltoo]

3. Just a bunch of "kinky bastards"

Who want the woman's fear and pain extended.

[justiceischeap]

4. Was it King that basically said husband's can't rape their wives

and if women were chaste there wouldn't be rape?

[Arugula Latte]

5. I think they are obsessed with controlling and intimidating women.

[Kalidurga]

6. I've been wondering that after thinking about what Akin said for a bit...

It is frightening. Kind of makes you wonder what their home life is like. Except I don't really want to know, I think it is probably very horrid.

[Tikki]

7. Prob Fantasy Island...but I asked my four adult males here if they fixated on rape.

NO they don't, but then they KNOW that rape is a felony crime and it doesn't matter if you put the
word god in there anywhere..you are going to prison for rape.


Tikki

[Hoyt]

8. How many would willingly say "yes" to one of these hateful, right wing nut jobs.

[Frustratedlady]

9. Especially the clown who recently said, there are some girls who are just easy to rape.

Not a direct quote, but close.

Yes, each time I hear one of them expound on rape, my first impression is that they either did or darned well wanted to to the point where it still obsesses them. I think talking about rape titillates them and sickens me.

How much influence do they have on teen-age boys. Do they think the boys aren't also looking for permission to take advantage? I see there was another young girl who committed suicide this week after being bullied by fellow students for having sex with 4 boys at a party. I believe they called her a slut. Where did they pick that word up from? Coincidence, I'm sure.

The worst is threatening to make it illegal for a woman who is raped to abort the baby, but to carry it to term AND allow visitation rights to the father. This is simply insane. How much hurt can they load these poor women with? This is beyond rationalization.

Until one of their daughters is attacked, they won't understand. Narrow-minded idiots.

[upaloopa]

10. I think that they lack the ability to have empathy to the victims.

Like a lot of things the right wants to put in place. The pain and suffering these things would cause is never considered.
Their cult like adherence to ideology is what is important. The consequences do not matter to them.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. I have wondered several times what it must be like to be married to or be

a daughter of some of these guys. And if they have sons, they have probably passed the same attutudes on to them.

[magical thyme]

12. Frankly, I strongly suspect their daughters are also their victims

and they will be justifying their incest rape until the day they die. But that's just my take on it.

[mstinamotorcity2]

13. No if you look at it, its a normal pattern.

No one wants to mention of their history full of violence. From the slaughter of the Native American to the displacement of Latinos to the corruption of indentured servitude. And even to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. crimes against women are the way to humiliate an entire culture. By using fear and force. In this instance, the are trying to use the fear of economic policies to justify their ideological and true mindset about the crime of rape. When you see people trying to justify a crime by saying that it has degrees or variations that you know do not have any effect on what the true nature of the crime really is. Then you know they are cool with it. Its like telling a little white LIE. It still is a LIE. They are so pathetic that they really don't see that this is not a gender based crime. Men are sexually assaulted. Children are sexually assaulted. And in some cases so are animals.A person can even be sexually assaulted by using a foreign object. Which makes Governor Ultrasound seem icky as hell. That is what is so stupid about this whole thing. The question should not be about the degrees of sexual assault. The question should be " What man do you know, that would let, or be comfortable with the thought of his Wife, Girlfriend, or Daughter having the baby of the person who raped them???" What if the assault was by someone of a different ethnic background??? Start asking that question. And watch your response. My husband did. A whole new outlook with men. Especially white men.

[ohheckyeah]

14. I was thinking last night...

there's something very perverse about these guys' preoccupation with rape, abortion and birth control.

[libdem4life]

15. Yes. Living Vicariously and Prurient Interests.

[gollygee]

16. I wonder as far as rape apologists go

if there's a reason why they think the way they do about rape. Like thinking some girls "rape easy" and how often girls say they were raped. It seems like maybe that would be an opinion someone would gather because they'd had that experience.

[Initech]

17. I think they're trying to legitimise past crimes.