On 8/2/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
To those who say I have trivialised rape / violence - I'll not quote, it's been more than one person by now - I am afraid you are mistaken. Let's see... I am a victim of long term sexual abuse... I have friends who have been raped... I have friends who have been stabbed with knives and thrown down staircases. And I am quite sure that, were those friends to read this, they would not be offended. Some of them would probably be proud of me.
I'm doing this to help victims and potential victims of abuse. I cannot honestly expect people to provide helpful responses to a sort of pain they do not understand - hence, I've been trying to explain it.
Appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy
Also see this article by Deborah Orr entitled 'Deborah Orr: How can juries understand rape unless the full horror is explained to them?': http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/deborah_orr/article2201075.e...
They don't need to. Sentanceing is the job of the judge.
SlimVirgin may not, to our knowledge, be the victim of violent stalking... yet!
That is a matter for the police.