A question of the smackdown

[ms_interpret]

I really really really hate it when people trivialize rape. I mean HATE it. I mean, sometimes I have to leave the situation entirely so as to not blow a gasket of anger-filled spew on to the offender. Sometimes, it's just stupid word choices: "forcible sex". Um, no. Rape. Sometimes it's a stupid joke, "And the upside is in Thailand, you don't just

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[subliminelle]

Well, if you really, really, REALLY hate it, then why wouldn't you say something every time? Are you asking if it's your place to say something? Because that's something else. And for that, I don't know. That's a case by case scenario, I think.

I didn't help at all, did I? :D

[rainbow_goddess]

I tend to say something whether it's a good idea or not. I don't often hear people talk like this about rape, but I have heard men talking about smacking women around, which really pushes my buttons because my sister and some of my closest women friends were abused by their male partners.

There is one friend of Monster's whom I refuse to have anything to do with. The very first time I met this man, I heard him say, "Some women just deserve to be hit." I said, "No, they don't." He said, "But you don't know what this woman did!" (what she had done, from what I heard of the conversation, was treat her boyfriend badly.) I said, "No, I don't know what she did, but I still don't think that she or any woman deserves to be hit."