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In reply to the discussion: Rape more Common than Smoking in the US [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)We did not present our case in a manner it seems which you, the "authoritai," deem appropriate.
I see it like this.
There's a guy who passes a woman who has just been raped, she's bloody and speaking in Spanish.
She begs for his help. He can see she needs help. It's obvious.
But then he says, "If you'd only speak English, I'd help you."
She is traumatized and wounded, but she tries to remember some English word.
"Me bang up. Me pain."
The man shakes his head and tells her, "Sorry, I still don't undertand what you're saying. I can see you need help, but unless you can learn to speak my language perfectly, I just can't do a thing for you."
He walks on down the road, convinced that he has taught her a very valuable lesson that will surely help her more than getting her to a doctor or tending her wounds or comforting her.
This is exactly what this sort of argument sounds like to me.
Unless any discussion of rape is parsed to your precise sepcification, you don't have to help anybody. Is this what you're saying? Because I trusted you to perhaps give me some insight into your ideas about how to combat rape and you didn't answer at all.
All you want to do is trash the thread title. Is this more important to you than trying to help rape victims? I am asking because I don't get your priorities.
Not one bit. You seem cruel to me.