Society Rant: Internet Rape???
This rant is inspired by a recent thread in S&M DUC forum
A thread was started on S&M in the Dark UNderground Culture about internet rape. Whether it exsisted, and specifically whether it was a problem in todays society. yes, you read that right INTERNET RAPE
WTF?????
Firstly, My opinion on the entire matter: Internet rape cannot exsist. Rape is a physical act, and cannot take place over the internet, period. You cannot rape someone in a chatroom. Rape victims do not have the option of walking away and ignoring thier rapist, internet chat users do. Anyone who's read any psychology books knows that rape is not about the sexual act as much as it is about control over the victim. In an internet chat room, IM, or email, the only one who has the control is you. You do not have to talk to anyone who annoys you, or anyone that makes you uncomfortable. The Block and Ignore buttons make that possible. Any physical threats that are made are, in all reality, damn near fucking impossible to carry out unless the person lives very close to you, in which case, internet rape still wouldn't happen, becuase they would be in your home raping you.
Emotional rape cannot happen either, also because of the wonderiferous invention of the block and ignore buttons. its my opinion that anyone claiming to be raped in any form over the internet is just looking for the attention and sympathy that they word "RAPE" evokes in many people. Which brings me to my rant.
Have we, as a society become so cavalier about evil acts that we can honestly even think of something called internet rape? Rape is a horrible experience. it takes everything you ever knew about yourself, about the world, about the poeple you knew, your values, morals, ideals, goals, and turns them completly upside down. It takes your self respect and self worth and rips them clean from your body, and leaves you an empty husk. In time, you may get your emotions and feelings back....but you're never the same. there is always that part of you that will feel dirty. Like you must have done something to deserve it, even though you know logically that you didn't.
Have we, as a Society become so eager to appear compassionate and Politically Correct that as soon as someone utters the word rape, we slap on the sympathy and outrage without needing to know the circumstances behind it? The circumstances matter, people. If someone came up to me and said they were internet raped I would slap them repeatedly, possibly until the brain damage they should have in order to utter such a ludicrous statement sets in, or until they die. Whichever comes first. Don't these people realize the hurdles actual rape victims have had to overcome?? Decades went by with rape victims being the ones put on trial, while thier assualter goes free, with the victims being made to feel that they were the dirty ones, that it was thier fault, while their attacker put on the "boys will be boys" defense and got away with it. The VICTIMS were the one branded for life with the stigma and shame. Don't these people realize that they are belittling and demeaning the horrible experience that rape is by stating that "internet rape" happens and is just as vile as physical rape? HOW FUCKING DARE THEY??? How dare they compare something that went on in a chat room to the act of rape?
Why is such a term even thought up? What kind of self absorbed person has to haev so much attention that they can claim they were raped over the fucking internet?
And Society allows it to continue, by smiling sympathetically and offering comforting words to those that have been "internet raped."
While people like me have to fight for years to see our attackers get a trial and punished for what they did to us.
It fucking disgusts me.
A thread was started on S&M in the Dark UNderground Culture about internet rape. Whether it exsisted, and specifically whether it was a problem in todays society. yes, you read that right INTERNET RAPE
WTF?????
Firstly, My opinion on the entire matter: Internet rape cannot exsist. Rape is a physical act, and cannot take place over the internet, period. You cannot rape someone in a chatroom. Rape victims do not have the option of walking away and ignoring thier rapist, internet chat users do. Anyone who's read any psychology books knows that rape is not about the sexual act as much as it is about control over the victim. In an internet chat room, IM, or email, the only one who has the control is you. You do not have to talk to anyone who annoys you, or anyone that makes you uncomfortable. The Block and Ignore buttons make that possible. Any physical threats that are made are, in all reality, damn near fucking impossible to carry out unless the person lives very close to you, in which case, internet rape still wouldn't happen, becuase they would be in your home raping you.
Emotional rape cannot happen either, also because of the wonderiferous invention of the block and ignore buttons. its my opinion that anyone claiming to be raped in any form over the internet is just looking for the attention and sympathy that they word "RAPE" evokes in many people. Which brings me to my rant.
Have we, as a society become so cavalier about evil acts that we can honestly even think of something called internet rape? Rape is a horrible experience. it takes everything you ever knew about yourself, about the world, about the poeple you knew, your values, morals, ideals, goals, and turns them completly upside down. It takes your self respect and self worth and rips them clean from your body, and leaves you an empty husk. In time, you may get your emotions and feelings back....but you're never the same. there is always that part of you that will feel dirty. Like you must have done something to deserve it, even though you know logically that you didn't.
Have we, as a Society become so eager to appear compassionate and Politically Correct that as soon as someone utters the word rape, we slap on the sympathy and outrage without needing to know the circumstances behind it? The circumstances matter, people. If someone came up to me and said they were internet raped I would slap them repeatedly, possibly until the brain damage they should have in order to utter such a ludicrous statement sets in, or until they die. Whichever comes first. Don't these people realize the hurdles actual rape victims have had to overcome?? Decades went by with rape victims being the ones put on trial, while thier assualter goes free, with the victims being made to feel that they were the dirty ones, that it was thier fault, while their attacker put on the "boys will be boys" defense and got away with it. The VICTIMS were the one branded for life with the stigma and shame. Don't these people realize that they are belittling and demeaning the horrible experience that rape is by stating that "internet rape" happens and is just as vile as physical rape? HOW FUCKING DARE THEY??? How dare they compare something that went on in a chat room to the act of rape?
Why is such a term even thought up? What kind of self absorbed person has to haev so much attention that they can claim they were raped over the fucking internet?
And Society allows it to continue, by smiling sympathetically and offering comforting words to those that have been "internet raped."
While people like me have to fight for years to see our attackers get a trial and punished for what they did to us.
It fucking disgusts me.