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Thread #127384   Message #2840955
Posted By: MGM·Lion
16-Feb-10 - 11:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Some rape victims should take blame'- ??
Subject: RE: BS: Some rape victims should take blame
I am sorry Dave ~ but I think that is a gross over-simplification. She IS doing harm by dressing or behaving 'provocatively' if she doesn't intend to put out: she is committing a gross breach of manners ~ or to put it more simply, being fucking rude ~ in appearing to offer more than she is prepared to grant. YOU use the word 'provocatively' ~ you must know {I am sure Richard will back me up on this} that there are some breaches of the law where 'provocation' can be admitted as a mitigating factor even to an admitted offence. If the young woman whose Please·Spank·My·Bare·Bum t-shirt I described above had got a good ringing smack across her behind from a passing stranger, I can't see she would have had all that much to complain of: &, if charged, surely he could have claimed a degree of 'provocation' as part of his defence — she would have ~ LITERALLY ~ asked for it. Where is the 'provocation' {I reiterate, a word you yourself are happy to be employing here} line to be drawn?