its all good - we're probably only a decade or so away from reaching the tipping point where a significant backlash against this type of shit occurs

[Edited on February 18, 2007 at 2:04 AM. Reason : s]

2/18/2007 2:03:54 AM

^^you're welcome, Bridget. no love lost.

^we're a decade away from the breaking point of a lot of shit, but that's for another thread.

2/18/2007 2:08:14 AM

^

2/18/2007 2:09:24 AM

I didn't read a word of this thread, just got home, what's going on?

2/18/2007 2:24:56 AM

Quote :

"A Tanzarian: I'm going to suggest this now. Examples please."

chembob reminded of the answer. The reason why we stopped revealing the names of the accusers is because it was an issue in the first place (justice-wise, like I've explained). The media didn't decide to stop releasing the names of the accusers "just because." It was a problem. BLAM.

And I quit cause I'm sick of having to repeat myself. And deal with assholes. And deal with losers who need attention. I fucking quit.

[Edited on February 18, 2007 at 3:37 AM. Reason : ]

2/18/2007 3:23:01 AM

Why isnt ridicule alone enough to keep alleged rapists names out of the paper??

seems like it should be...

2/18/2007 8:30:29 AM

See, I wonder how much of an issue it actually was. I have no doubt that such things have occured in the past, but I view that as part of the general degradation of women's rights and not part of special views concerning rape (see many of the 'modern' Middle Eastern countries). How would a modern US society react now that legal reforms concerning rape have been in place for nearly 40 years? How much of this is a deliberate engineering of public beliefs and perceptions, or, at the very least, a propagation of 'common sense' views about the beliefs that society holds? The media definitely portrays a certain view of rape cases (I'm not trying to start some liberal/conservative media bias shit, but as relayers of information the media is going to filter certain events/views/perceptions)--see the most recent Duke rape case. It should be significant in that it is the second rape allegation to arise from a Duke student party in less than a year. Yet, there is almost no media coverage.

Semi-interesting reading from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_reporting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape

And here's an interesting quote from the second Wiki article:

Quote :

"The Department of Justice study also found that in "about half of the incidents categorized as completed rapes, the women or man did not consider the incident to be a rape.""

Perhaps we need to revise the definition of rape.

[Edited on February 18, 2007 at 10:34 AM. Reason : ]

2/18/2007 10:24:41 AM