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In reply to the discussion: "How to Avoid getting Raped" [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)Several thousand years of recorded history, plus the odd stove in skull from pre-history, tells us that what you said is so much bullshit and wishful thinking.
If EVERY man had it in himself to be and not be those things, then we'd be living in a utopia.
Look at just how quickly we can devolve to the worst of human behaviour, when the brakes of civilised behaviour are removed. From the 15 YO inner city gangbanger pimping out his 10 YO sister, to the grizzled staff seargent teaching fresh recruits the best trophy ear drying techniques.
You react with shock and horror at: The parent or babysitter shaking a kid's brains into so much porridge; The dad who drives off a bridge with his kids to "punnish the bitch", or the mum who drowns them one by one in the bathtub to "save them".
Teaching someone that they should never be a victim is just plain cruel, unless you also teach them what they can do to avoid becoming one.