Haven't posted this on facebook

[gygaxis]

In random world events within my own world, Caity's living up north for the time being dealing with family crisis, I finally found a new place to live after 3 weeks being homeless thanks to asshole January landlord who owes me close to $1000, and classes are kicking my ass since I spent so much time house hunting this term

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[riotlounge]

The list started out really well and then backslid into blaming every man as a possible rapist. Which is sorta extreme and unfair.

[gygaxis]

A fair enough critique, think last time I saw this it was chopped to the first 20?

[aranka]

<3 35-37. Just love being told I'm being a bitch for saying "no."

I think there's another shorter one like this that parodies the lists of preventative behavior for women. I loved from that one, "if you're walking a girl home, try really hard not to rape her."

[gygaxis]

Yeah that's the list I was looking for, but this one suited me just as well.

[stormry]

28. Stay away from pornography. Most rapists love it. That should be a danger sign.

Shit dude, you're a fucking rapist cause you look at more porn than damn near anyone I know.

Seriously though, funny list, get it from cracked.com?

[stormry]

also:

44. Do not forward around emails to people telling them what women should do to prevent themselves from being raped. Women have never, and will never be able to stop the phenomena of rape

That is fucking asinine. That's like saying I cannot stop the "phenomena of robbery", meanwhile, i sure as fuck can take some pretty big steps towards not letting myself be victimized. Does that mean it's my fault if I still am? Fuck no, but I can sure as fuck stop it sometimes.

[aranka]

It's a little harsh, but the point is, its a really annoying thing to always have to think about. And the lists they send around about personal safety are pretty fucking annoying and suggest that if you don't follow to the letter and something does happen you're to blame. Me and a friend were attacked (unsuccessfully) walking home together covered head to toe on a decently populated well lit street. Not our fault. The guy just flipped out. But no one's going to say that a victim of robbery deserved it because they failed to purchase an alarm or had a window on the first floor. Had the guy in our case been successful the first thing a defense attorney or police would say would be, "well why were you girls out after 8pm? That's just inviting trouble."

[stormry]

Well that's a completely different problem with society's view on rape. Rape is a violent crime and should be treated as such. Just like robbery, assault, or murder. I don't think the victim is to blame in any of those situations. But it's also completely asinine to say the victim "have never, and will never be able to stop" those crimes. That's just turning the victims into bigger victims. Unless you're Terry Schiavo, you're not that powerless over your own life, and knowing how to protect yourself, or at least diminish risk is certainly possible. Again, failing to do so does NOT make it the victim's fault, but let's not say the victim is completely helpless, that's just even more insulting to the victim in my opinion.

[stormry]

Hey, can #51 on the list be for this: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3271534

Stay away from crazy bitches that get drunk and claim rape because they were too drunk to know what they were consenting to?

[gygaxis]

No, it can't, and I am utterly disinterested in GBS's general views on feminist issues or rape as that is the exact response GBS puts forth for every single conceivable occurrence of rape ever.

[stormry]

Way to generalize and completely avoid the issue. Do you actually lack that much faith in your viewpoint?

Abuse of the system actually probably accounts for a good deal of why the system has some of the problems that it does, and to act as though it's not a legitimate problem is tantamount to plugging your ears and going "LA LA LA LA" on the scale of genuine responses.

[gygaxis]

Heaven forbid I generalize the goons, the internet detectives will find me and publish all of my secrets.

This is a moderate issue, but it's a vastly overplayed issue specifically in GBS. However rape is still vastly under-reported and under-prosecuted so the only reform to the process I'm particularly interested in seeing pursued would be something which facilitates increased reporting and prosecution of actual rapists, of which there are many. Preventing false imprisonment is an issue which while having some overlap with rape is an issue that is larger than just a rape issue and will need to be addressed seperately.

[srattus]

tl;dr. I guess I might rape someone since I didn't read this.