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Let's play a game of Blame the Victim. I'll start: a woman goes out, has a few drinks, is feeling drunk, and suddenly a man comes along and rapes her. Who gets the blame? If you said the rapist you would be wrong.

More Rapes Linked To Young Women On Drinking Binges


That's the headline given to an article about the number of rapes in San Diego going up. It's not that more men are committing rape, or that rapists are getting away with repeat assaults, or even the more positive outlook that more rapes are being reported. Nope, it's those silly girls getting drunk and getting themselves raped.

From the story:

"The majority are young women who start out in bars or at a house party and end up drinking too much," Kendrick told the newspaper. "They can't consciously make a good decision, like say no and leave. Or maybe they've had too much to drink and can't leave."

Right, because having the audacity of being a woman, drinking, and in a place where there are rapists is really just a matter of making the wrong decision. Everyone knows that if you just tell your rapist no he'll let you get up and leave, it's just that the women are too drunk to do that.

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How about that more men are targeting women drinking in bars or parties. Which really isn't that surprising given the way rape cases are handled today. If a woman drinks too much she not only has to worry about being raped, but also that the judge will decide if she was too drunk to walk she was also too drunk to say no. Rather than ruling more harshly against the rapists who take advantage of woman who are intoxicated the women are punished for doing the drinking, sending the not-so-subtle message that "good girls" stay at home and wash their hair rather than leave the house and behave like everyone else is. And of course if you're not a good girl then it's not really rape/it's totally your fault.


One good thing is that from this San Diego's rape numbers should decrease. Not that the number of actual rapes will go down, just that more women will choose not to report them for fear of how they will be treated when it's discovered that their ankles were showing.

Image source - Brenna Lorenz, Martin Walls
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Time and time again the so called "pro-life" movement has shown it's true colors by being pro anything but life. At least not life as most people know it, in a thinking, feeling, living human being. It seems that once again the "pro-life" people have stepped up to say they are absolutely against life.

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To celebrate National HIV Testing Day a group from Planned Parenthood made arrangements to pass out fliers at a local Wal-Mart. Despite what the extreme anti-choice like to claim, the fliers were in no way attempting to give porn and birth control to kindergarteners. What that would even have to do with HIV testing and prevention is beyond me anyways.

Surprisingly the fliers being handed out, on National HIV Testing Day, were full of information on how to prevent HIV and where to go to be tested. Who would have guessed that? What happened next is hardly a surprise however. The "pro-life" groups realized that preventing HIV and testing to be able to begin treatment as soon as possible might actually be a good thing for the living, including the babies they claim to want to help. Which is exactly why they stepped in and had the event canceled by Wal-Mart.

Now it would seem to me that the less people infected with HIV the better. Especially for a group so caught up in their "save the babies" rhetoric. HIV prevention means less infected parents, and the same safe sex actions that work to prevent HIV infection will work to prevent unwanted pregnancies. By blocking Planned Parenthood from helping people it would seem that this "pro-life" group actually wants HIV infected parents and numerous unwanted pregnancies that could be aborted.

So much for the babies.


hattip: feministing
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