[WikiEN-l] Please stop this Re: The Second Rape: Victim-Blaming (was Re: Self-sensorship, how far should it go?)

[geni]

On 8/2/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at 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.ece

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.

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geni