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In reply to the discussion: 6'4" 250 lb. Man Rapes Three-year-old Daughter, Judge rules for HIS safety. No rape culture here! [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...knowing what he did, it makes me ill.
It also reminds me that those who are born into luxury are often deeply corrupted by that very fact. Not because they were born inherently evil, but because of the corrosive influence on their psyches of never having to earn anything in their lives. Always being privileged, never having to worry, knowing they are simply "better" than the rest of the poor slobs out there, knowing they will never have to prove a damned thing to anyone, knowing they can buy their own form of justice any time they step in it.
Then there is the other side of the coin. That little girl was also born into luxury, and the corrosive forces are at work there too! only in her case, she will be deeply damaged in a different way, because her well-being was devalued and discounted by a fucking judge, due to "concern" about the well-being of her rapist. Well maybe in her case, since she is only 3 years old, maybe nature will mercifully erase the memory of what happened from her psyche in the long run. But nature cannot erase the culture she is growing up in, and it is clearly a horrible culture that demeans her status in favor of the adult male who raped her. And, as someone else noted, her brother was also raped by this monster -- so all of this applies to him as well.
Yes this is one example of rape culture, I do agree with that. But even more so IMO it is a reminder that we ignore human nature at our peril -- and if one looks at history, if there is one thing it shows us, it is that absolute power OR WEALTH corrupts absolutely.