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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
nobody here (that i know of, anyway) is for rapists, or idiot judges, or for politicians who make stupid claims of "legitimate rape".
but asking people to shut up on the internet because what they say makes you sad isn't going to stop any rapists, stupid judges, or idiot politicians.
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Nobody that you know... Statistics show that most people don't even know what rape IS. We had an example in this thread of someone saying that he thinks sexual assault only happens when harm is done to the body. There are great misconceptions about this.
There are plenty of cases, and most studies about this are from the US, about how victims are actually the ones who get judged during the process. Their clothing, sexual behavior, drinking habits... everything is analysed in a really humiliating process, where conviction is a minority of the cases.
Many factors get into that: while young women and women who have been raped by strangers have better chances, prostitutes or married women who have been raped by their husbands have basically no chance of winning.
Most women who are murdered are killed by a partner, while that is rare for men. In many cases, they have already reported abuse or threat before but aren't given enough protection.
This has everything to do with the cultural notion of a woman as an object.
By educating people about what objetification really means and how it helps the perpetuation of violence against women, I can hope for them to confront certain embedded notions and become better people to the women in their lives.
This is important in an age where violence against women is alarmingly on the rise.
You don't have the right to decide what's worthy of doing.