Calling All Men - Have You Ever Raped A Woman?

Deskdiary | 18:53 Sun 14th Mar 2021 | News

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I've never raped a woman.

I've also never murdered a woman, abused a woman or harassed a woman.

None of those things have ever entered my mind, but it turns out I have the "potential" to do all of those things and I should be feared.

Never mind though, I can't go to a non-essential shop or a pub because I will start a zombie apocalypse, but if I was in possession of a vagina, I could go to a completely non-socially distanced vigil.

Am I the only one that is a little offended by how my sex is being defined?

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ichkeria

“ did you just assume their gender, Ich?”

Did I assume whose gender?

ichkeria

It’s a wild rant.
Hard to know what the the topic is to stick to

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Sunk

// I could go to a completely non-socially distanced vigil. //

The organisers of the vigil had a detailed plan for a socially distanced vigil. This involved female marshals for every 30 attendees. The Met police turned them down point blank.
At the High Court, a Judge determined that it could not decide that the vigil was illegal or not because the guidance and law was so incomprehensible. The organisers called off the vigil at the insistence of Met and with it the chance to marshal properly distancing.
People turned up anyway. The Met lost control and the rest is history.

Chinajan

// I've never raped a woman.

I've also never murdered a woman, abused a woman or harassed a woman. //

Me neither. And yet people of my sex were told by the police to stay in.

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Are Sunk’s/Gromit’s posts being removed because AB is aware of his drink problem? Just asking?

Sunk

I’m not the one blubbering because “I can't go to a pub because I will start a zombie apocalypse”.

david small

A load of nonsense and to be treated as such. No testicles good. Two testicles bad. Hogwash.

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piggynose

Same topic for whats its worth, i´ve many a time found myself walking along a dimly lit street with a lone female only a matter of few yards in front of me, to avoid panic i´ve had to slow down my walking speed or cross the road. BTW we´re talking many years ago.

pixie374

That's just it, CJ. People seem to be concentrating or what they would or wouldn't personally do.
DD, if you had a daughter, sister, other female friend or relative- and they told you they went out walking in town every night from 11pm-1am, would you be at all concerned for their safety at all? And if so, why?
I think you have to bear in mind, that men get attacked and are also victims, but overwhelmingly by other men. So this uproar about male violence, isn't women v men, but predators v victims.

mushroom25

// No testicles good. Two testicles bad. Hogwash. //

oooooooh another assumption of gender...... :-)

DTCwordfan

Sunk had it - the High Court judge leaving things in a bit of legal muddle and this certainly didn't help the situation. My betting is, that when the enquiries are done, I bet we find that there are some anarchists and extremists involved in stirring up the crowds later on....even allowing for the police over-reacting in some cases.

As to the question, like 98.5%+ men, I have never raped a woman or been involved in anything that 'interferes' with their rights. The suggestions on a male curfew are simply silly - it's about education for the younger males, respect and all that - and doubling/trebling sentences and fines for anything from groping to up-skirting, stalking and all the rest that make women uncomfortable - and the same should hold for women as to men!!! Parity for all and respect the individual, male or female, and their right to chose who they get involved with.

However, there will always be a fringe of the mentally deranged/fetishists/perverts and all the rest....that won't go away - but perhaps the frequency of attack/incidents can be reduced.

Sunk

// Am I the only one that is a little offended by how my sex is being defined? //

It is not really your sex, it is some of your sex. Not all men are rapists, but the majority of rapists of women are men.
Don’t complain about women being scared or intimidated by you, complain about the men who have let the side down.

Peter Pedant

is this a serious thread?

bobbinwales

Agree with you partly about the police sunk but lets face it even if the organisers were granted a socially distance vigil anti police
troublemakers would probly still of joined them to spark a confrontation

Sqad

We have this topic from time to time on AB and it depends on the definition of the word rape, which is penetrative intercourse against the will of a woman indicated by word or emotional expression.
That is my definition anyway.
That would include the partner using utterances such as being too tired, headache or just not feeling like it.
I would bet, by that definition the vast majority, vast majority of men could be described as rapists.
I would certainly come into that category and have been labelled as such on AB during a previous discussion on this topic.
Women, during my upbringing and teenaged years tended to be respected, on the whole, it being the norm to pick her up from her home and return her in one piece at the end of the evening. She was dressed appropriately, that is her skirt or dress was not barely covering her buttocks and the cleft of her breasts was delicately obscured....delicately.
Mainly, drunken women were the exception to the rule and was looked down upon.
I walked on the outside of the pavement, opened the door to allow her entry, stood up at the table in restaurant when she returned from the "ladies"......that is what was considered respect.
The first time I heard the word rape, was when I was 14 years old and we had to read the Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare.
Yes, by todays definition I HAVE raped a woman and ihave also been asked by a girlfriend to rape her after tying her to the bed.
It is not easy to rape a woman, as the strongest muscles in the legs are the Adductor muscles which oppose parting of the thighs.
We live in a different world to which I have difficulty adapting.