01-19-2010, 11:01 AM
You're right of course. It's the rapist we are castigating here for the crime of rape. Just that in this topic we were also discussing the peanut gallery, the people who look at the case and go "Well, she deserved it because so and so." So in this case we also need to confront how society views rape, how it views sexuality, etc. Not saying it's wrong for men to be attracted to women, just that there are a lot of bad men out there who "blame" women for their own impulses.
Nad made a good point. In a lot of ways the media has trained us to objectify one another (men objectifying women, women objectifying men) because we these images of beautiful people and they're not real people to us, the idea that they're real people and not just fantasy objects becomes so remote. That's where the bizarre rapist excuse comes from, where he sees a beautiful woman and sees her as just a body, not a person.
Nad made a good point. In a lot of ways the media has trained us to objectify one another (men objectifying women, women objectifying men) because we these images of beautiful people and they're not real people to us, the idea that they're real people and not just fantasy objects becomes so remote. That's where the bizarre rapist excuse comes from, where he sees a beautiful woman and sees her as just a body, not a person.
PS. If you can, try your hand at giving some of the others a bit of feedback. If you already have, thanks, can you do some more?