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Originally Posted by Trollheart
How do you find out what it's like to be raped? You can't --- unless you ask someone to rape you --- and these sort of comments from 216 and to some extent CB are ill-founded, mean and trying to trivialise the serious subject of rape. Given that they're talking to a rape victim in JD I think your insensitivity guys has reached new lows. You can't say you didn't know because she told you. And you still think she's overreacting?
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I knew it would turn into this.
I've not said anything mean and I'm not trivialising rape. My comments weren't specifying rape either.
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This kind of has nothing to do with humour, and it's going OT a little, but the comment that guy made to her is not acceptable, in my view, at any time, and certainly not from a stranger. Whether he's talking to someone who's experienced the ordeal of rape or not is somewhat beside the point. The fact is that EVERY woman --- yes, DJ, and man, but men generally can fight back and it's not I think that common --- fears being attacked, so you can't really say oh he didn't know she was a rape victim. It's not a case of her being or not being one: he should not say it to a woman, who is gender-disposed to worry about such a thing, whether she believes it will happen or not. And why then shoudl she not fear for her safety? Who knows if the guy is going to follow her and make good on his "threat"?
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Need a hand moving those goalposts?
See above, I was talking about offence. I did not say she shouldn't feel threatened. I was not talking about what is and isn't acceptable.
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