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Showing Original Post only (View all)In many of the rape threads I an noticing a definite empathy deficit... [View all]
...by the posters who get angry thinking that they are being told that "all men are rapists".
As someone who is on the Autism spectrum it is a problem I have deal with every day. I am always having remind myself that just because I know I am not X does not mean OTHER people know that.
It is the same thing with women's reactions towards men in public. Men get offended and accuse women of "assuming they are rapists" when they are not, well those women the men are so offended by don't know that!
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In many of the rape threads I an noticing a definite empathy deficit... [View all]
Odin2005
Dec 2012
OP
I only get offended when they misquote everyone here is a misguided bid for sympathy.
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#4
Thank you. Cliffordu creates a straw man of Brobdignagian proportions, the
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#68
i am going with you on this one. do they say it cause it is expected from conditioning, and they
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#92
exactly. there are studies that refute this conditioned perception. it is getting society to
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#93
Look, I'm a guy, and I think you're overreacting to the point of looking ridiculous.
nomorenomore08
Dec 2012
#27
Growing up as a gay person you can also get similar treatment from these jerks, even from cops
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#29
Oh..Yes...I was going to post pretty much the same thing but figured I'd stick to the..
BlueJazz
Dec 2012
#34
Yeah, it can be pretty scary, especially if you don't look just like those jerks! They
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#38
I tangled with somebody who *truly couldn't seem to understand* that his long-winded, self-centered
nomorenomore08
Dec 2012
#30