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Do people not understand what "Rape" is?

Not to sound like a jerk, but are young girls really this ignorant?

Every day I see a dozen or so questions asking "What this rape" or "Was I raped", that usually go onto to giving us details along the lines of "I said no" "He pinned me down" "I was drunk" or "I told him I didn't want to". There are usually long paragraphs describing details that aren't necessary all the pretty much amounts to a girl being forced into sex.

I'm sure a good number of these are just trolls, but it seems like quite a few girls (it's almost always a girl that asks these questions) are either unclear on the concept of rape (how could you be, we've been told what it is for years and there's an entire women's network "Lifetime" dedicated to it), or just want to make sure.

Update:

Athena, I don't pick up girls from bars. I like to know that a woman enjoys my company, not that she enjoys being drunk in my company....

Update 2:

It is cut and dry though. If a woman starts off a story with "I didn't want to and I said no", then it's obviously rape. There is no maybe about it.

In the case of inebriation, I can understand a woman being unsure, however, if she includes the words "I told him I didn't want to have sex" or "I tried to stop him", that's no longer a "blurred line" that's a definitive rape.

Update 3:

It is cut and dry though. If a woman starts off a story with "I didn't want to and I said no", then it's obviously rape. There is no maybe about it.

In the case of inebriation, I can understand a woman being unsure, however, if she includes the words "I told him I didn't want to have sex" or "I tried to stop him", that's no longer a "blurred line" that's a definitive rape.

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  • 7 years ago
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    You can thank all of the people who have made a big deal out of victim blaming, for this mentality.

  • 7 years ago

    You're totally right. Some girls have no idea what being "Raped" actually means. They mostly go off of stories they've heard or read. And it's hard to say what "being raped" actually means. At some points in time, men can be raped. But because women are "more likely" the rape victim, we seldom hear these stories. Except if it involves a High School English teacher and one of her students she had an affair with.

    I agree with Sans Deity's comment.

  • Athena
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Sorry Patrick but it is not always as cut and dried as you would like it to be.

    So maybe you had better be a little more careful who you pick up in a bar and what you do with her after.

    I agree with you, but right now we are in between being the scared little girls who need protecting from the evils of the world, and your intellectual and sexual equal. You were just born in the wrong time.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Sadly a lot of Young Women are not too bright when it comes to Sex.Between some Religions having a Head up Their A** attitude towards Sex and some Parents who live in Never Never land when it comes to Their Daughters sex lives these Young Women are easy pickings for any horny Young Man.Remember Humans are hard wired to have sex . Even though You may not agree with Their methods the desire to have sex is a normal activity for all Humans and other animals. In past times it was normal for Women to start having sex by the age of 12 or 13. Still is in many societies today. And even though many Young Women claim They did not consent many of Them don't resist all that hard when it does happen. Basically it's a catch 22 situation. She wants to do it , but if She does She get's into trouble . So the answer is to do it and then say she did not mean to do it. This way if She gets caught Her Parents wont put all the blame on Her. This foolishness has been going on since the beginning of time and will continue for a long time yet. This answers why so many of the Rape cases that come to the Police's attention never make it to Court. Every weekend all across the world young Women get intoxicated and have sex and afterwards They claim They can't remember it or claim it was rape. Makes You think there are a lot of not very bright Young Women on this planet.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Zvučiš poput patetičnog ženomrzac bez razumijevanja kako život funkcionira. Trebali bi biti zatvoren za neznanja!

  • 6 years ago

    Funny how you say "ignorant" when you're the one coming onto my page insulting me just because I live with my parents.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    There's two types mental and physical both r bad obv physical is worse but if people have the ability to mentally rape u it affects you physically and mentally

  • 7 years ago

    Well you do sound like a jerk!

    and you probably are.

  • 7 years ago

    I think many of them would prefer it if they hadn't been raped so they're trying to find someone to convince them that it wasn't rape.

  • 7 years ago

    Hey lookie there I'm gonna answer your question without an actual answer. Idiot. **** you.

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