One in eight women have been raped? Really? I'm sorry, but of those eight how many were real, forcible (really overpowering the victim with force -strength-gun-knife) rape?
Yeah, actually, I do buy that, unfortunately. A quick mental poll of the total number of close female friends versus the number of them I know who've been forcibly raped correlates with that figure.
If you get into the number of close calls - the type of situation where it "would've happened because they had me pinned but someone walked in/I managed to scream/I got free enough to knee them", then it gets higher, and when you count the guys who started off attempting some half-hearted physical force but in the end decided not to go through with it, well, almost everyone I know has that kind of story.
Why are the "take back the night" ladies seen as being aggressive? Just read the works of:
Andrea Dworkin ("…[I]n every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.")
or
Catherine MacKinnon ("All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.")
This is no way mean to excuse rapists. However, to deny that rape has been employed as a political tool by the more extreme forms of feminism is blind. To be surprised that men are defending themselves as a group against this feminist agitprop, is... well… naïve.
I concede that there is a branch of feminism that basically hates men. I concede that those quotes are irresponsible, inexcusable, and prejudiced. I have even posted on the tendency in modern media to perpetrate the stereotype of "men are idiots" and "throw rocks at boys" - things which would never be tolerated were the shoe on the other foot.
However . . .
I also know I really shouldn't walk alone at night, even through perfectly safe neighborhoods. I know how common the rape theme is in porn videos, and how many men like them. I know how often I'm objectified by men in public - and I mean in a predatory manner, not in the sense of a simple glance of asthetic appreciation.
Why is it that the first introduction to the local attorneys I received when accepting the domestic violence prosecutor position was a series of "If I gave her a black eye, I already told her once" jokes, just to test whether I was one of 'those manhaters' or if I thought giving women a black eye was funny? Why is it that I have to disclaim the word "feminist" to make sure no one thinks I mean "anti-man"?
Here's another analogy: I've defended "red staters" from those who dismiss them as fundamentalist moonbat right wing nazis who want to have us all sing the hallelujah chorus three times before breakfast, pointing out that the lunatic fringe must stand separate from the logical majority. Why can't females who are simply for equal rights and against rape be afforded that same distinction from the anti-male extremists?
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