The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47509   Message #713755
Posted By: katlaughing
20-May-02 - 12:18 AM
Thread Name: Rape
Subject: RE: Rape
That is good to hear, Larry. Thanks for doing such good work.

My sisters' best friend went to an exclusive college and was raped. Her parents brought her home and let her know that no one would want to marry her because of the rape; that she'd have to settle for whomever would have her. They were embarrassed, white, Christian and this happened in the mid 60's. Unfortunately, she was an only child, quite sheltered before the rape. She believed her parents and did settle for a man who, imo, has abused and debased her all of their 20 some years of married life. It happenes every day, all over the world and it IS about men humiliating and destroying not only women's lives, but the lives of their families, esp. that of any men who they may be associated with...their "enemy" as someone said before in this thread. And, that is part of the biological thing, too, taken to the extreme. Kind of the ultimate "stickin' it to the man" in a very personal way.