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In reply to the discussion: The Robert Cray song, Right Next Door (Because of Me); Is it about a rapist? [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)47. I didn't say that, but there are others who implied that and will not post on this thread
I notice that the "enthusiastic participation or it's rape" crowd is markedly absent.
Both Cray and I see the woman as a victim, perhaps not a rape victim but a victim nonetheless.
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The Robert Cray song, Right Next Door (Because of Me); Is it about a rapist? [View all]
Fumesucker
Nov 2012
OP
Eh, as I stated in the OP, I've known men like that, they aren't all that unusual
Fumesucker
Nov 2012
#19
so is using salesmanship rape? "baby, i really love you, you're so beautiful..." If so, there's
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#44
I didn't say that, but there are others who implied that and will not post on this thread
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#47
If you have to persuade someone to do something it doesn't sound like enthusiastic participation
Fumesucker
Nov 2012
#4
From what I've learned on DU, pretty much any man who can pick out more than 2 chords on
Schema Thing
Nov 2012
#6
"f"???? Hell, even I feel my resistance waning... must not let dawgs...aaarrggghhh
Schema Thing
Nov 2012
#9
I saw a standard put forth on DU that turns most if not all seduction into rape
Fumesucker
Nov 2012
#31
This was a married woman who lived right next door, on the other side of the thin walls.
Fumesucker
Nov 2012
#40
I love it, redqueen is now defending a man for whom a woman is "only another notch on my guitar"
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#50
I've heard this song about four million times and I never thought it was about rape...
Chorophyll
Nov 2012
#33
You ask if a Work of Fiction is about a rapist? Email the author. Want to know what it's like to...
Melinda
Dec 2012
#45
As I said elsewhere, I told no one of what happened to me until I was well into my forties
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#57
"Anything less than enthusiastic participation" is not necessarily criminally actionable.
nomorenomore08
Dec 2012
#59