Using common sense is good.
Taking precautions is good.
But with rape, these only help avoid the stranger who attacks. (And not always.) And most victims know their attackers. Those attackers are husbands, friends, relatives, neighbors, teachers, doctors.
So be careful and use common sense, yes, but we need so much more.
#220: I am certain too that Teresa can explain in exquisite precision the wheres and whys of his wrongness.
#217: Yes and yes.
Too often, the rapist is excused and the victim blamed.
Rape is not sexy. It is violent and ugly. It will only stop if the rapists are taught and taught that it is wrong. That women are people too.
There came into my hands today a strange missive from McCain/Palin Victory 2008. A desperate letter, truly, complete with a pre-paid Federal Express Envelope and the plea for an Emergency Contribution of many thousands of dollars. They tell me I must send money Now, Right Now, else the country faces "the most radical and extreme shifts in direction of our nation." There follows other hysterical exclamations about rich liberals and that terrible Obama person.
I wonder, how many mischief-filled pages could I fit into said pre-paid envelope?
What a shining good news that Miss Teresa is coming home today!
How scary! I am glad the paramedics were so swift, and so well-equipped. May Miss Teresa come home soon.
#44: BTW, they developed the system in Visual C++ using MFC.
*sporks out eyes in dismay*
And now there are four who have taken down their stories from the Helix abode. I am thinking more will do the same.
A most excellent website! I am fiendishly delighted.
Wishing you a Fiendishly Happy Birthday, sir!
I am thinking this Andrew Burt is not a power-hungry one, but one who believes he is always the right and reasonable, and so we should all listen to him, him, him.
Not better than power-hungry, merely different.
More threats! More outrage! Oh, the tragedy that we are not paying enough attention to this woman, that she must write strange sockpuppet posts to garner more. Sad lady, no court or lawyer will take your accusations seriously. If you wish in truth to be a writer, you must write the words yourself, and make them good. Excuses do not count.
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