Aaaarrrrggghhh

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Ok, I'm so angry right now, so I kind of need to vent and blah. So I go to school at NYU and there have been two rapes in the area recently, BOTH in busy areas, one at 6:30 am and one at 9:30pm(!!!)...and this is in the middle of the CITY, so obviously there would be mad peeps around. So anyways, I was talking with some of my sisters tonite about it, and it just made me so angry thinking about how these shithead horney bastards rationalize it, "well, SHE was asking for it, blahblahblah." Yes, it's true that to protect your own safety in the unfortunate circumstances that exist, precautions should be taken, but that in NO WAY EVER excuses a guy for allowing his fucking instincts to take over reason and human compassion!!! How can you possibly ever rationalize brutalizing another human being, in a way that is so devastating physically, mentally AND emotionally??? And what's even worse is that a mentality like that is what keeps women from coming forward and convicting these "people", especially in the case of aquaintance rape. Please understand that this thread in no way accuses anyone here or anyone you know of doing something like that, but it IS and issue on college campuses, and it HAS happened in the greek community as well. My roomate just told me that she saw a survey in which the majority of college age guys asked said that if there were no consequences involved, they would rape women. I can't believe that, please let it not be true, I know two women close to me that have had that happen to them, one was tormented by the guy afterwards for a year but she never said anything because she thought it was HER fault!! "Well, I only said no once, maybe I was too quiet." FUCK THAT! Everyone, can I ask you a question? What would you do if you found out that someone you knew had raped someone? Because in my case, even if they had been my best friend, I would be the first to try to get them sent to jail, there are no exceptions there. You know the other thing that is disturbing? The fact that no one came to these women's aid, and it's something that happens all the time, people are witnesses to a woman being assaulted and just standby without saying anything. There are so many self-defense classes, there ought to be workshops on how to tactfully investigate a suspicious situation between two strangers, yo. I dunno...maybe I'm not even making any sense, I have so much to say that it's all kinda fragmented and jumbled. I hope none of you will take offense to anything I'm saying, and I would really like to hear what you have to say about the subject, it would help to reassure me what I know must be true---that the survey my roomie told me about is bullshit, that this is an important issue to both sexes, and that there is SOMETHING that can be done about it. BTW, the rape rate is rising here now too, I don't feel as safe anymore, this is not fair! Ok, I'm done, I need to take some deep breaths and count to ten, hahahahahahahaha.