how to prevent rape

[Miniar]

Take martial arts classes, practice..

If you can't "carry" a weapon, "become" a weapon.

[lisagurl]

"That only works until someone comes into your home.  I mean it doesn't happen AS often, but it happens a fair amount."
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Anyone breaking into a home is fair game. An alarm system and 45 semi automatic will do the job.

[Miniar]

"That only works until someone comes into your home.  I mean it doesn't happen AS often, but it happens a fair amount."
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Anyone breaking into a home is fair game. An alarm system and 45 semi automatic will do the job.

Again...
Firearms are not universally available...

[Alyssa M.]

Actually, rape prevention is incredibly easy:

http://www.feministing.com/archives/004756.html

[Asfsd4214]

Actually, rape prevention is incredibly easy:

http://www.feministing.com/archives/004756.html

Wow... that's actually even more useless than my link... I know it's supposed to be all deep and profound, but I just can't help but feel like it's stupid and naive.

Sorry, no offense is intended but, really? Yeah I suppose if someone tries to rape me I'll tell them something like "what kind of a message does this send".

[lisagurl]

Again...
Firearms are not universally available...

The beauty of being able to move to a place that values freedom.

[Britney_413]

Sadly, while in some countries people are more or less citizens in other countries they are subjects. As far as I'm concerned, any government that does not respect an individual's right to be free from bodily harm and to protect and defend themselves accordingly is a country of subjects not citizens. The UN as well as Amnesty International also have similar "non-violence" beliefs. They condemn governments who abuse their "citizens" and call for action but at the same time don't believe people should be allowed to take up arms to defend themselves whether it is from each other or against their government. It is called hypocritical.

[Valerie Elizabeth]

one word

handgun

I wish.  Had my pistol permit pulled earlier this year.  Love NYS, the Police, and the ATF.  not.

[Keroppi]

"That only works until someone comes into your home.  I mean it doesn't happen AS often, but it happens a fair amount."
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Anyone breaking into a home is fair game. An alarm system and 45 semi automatic will do the job.

Unless you're in the UK, in which case you get sent to jail for assaulting the person breaking and entering, and they get a suspend sentence.

[Miniar]

The beauty of being able to move to a place that values freedom.

Accessibility of firearms is not the definition of freedom.

All places value freedom, what differs is just how it is expressed.

[Hannah]

Someone approaching from 20 feet away can be on top of you before you even get your hand on your pistol. Did you know people don't always fall on the first shot? No, unless you shoot them in the face you are going to have to shoot them again, and again, and again. That's not gonna happen with most people and you all know it. You'll start packing heat, maybe get it out as he takes you down, then he'll take it from you, beat you with it, prolly rape you anyway then shoot you with it.

I liked the feministing post, but I kept looking for "the onion" somewhere on that first website, lol.

[Miniar]

There's a reason for the knight-stick other than the "non-lethal" option.
Police in several countries are trained how to handle knives.
Hand to Hand combat is taught heavily With firearm training in case of both military and police forces.

A gun is good for protecting yourself from an assailant from afar, but in close personal contact, a well placed blow is safer for you and more effective, and you don't have to "draw" your hands, elbows, knees, teeth, etc...

[milktea]

So please take it from me it is really not something to joke about. EDIT (I'm not implying anyone was by the way)

so sorry to hear about this...i created this post only because i was so amused by the vagina dentata invention, hope it didn't cause any bad memories to surface 

ashley i'm truly shocked about queesland police...it's like reading the latest hoax google service on april fools...and just out of curiosity how bad's the crime rate over there?

[Asfsd4214]

so sorry to hear about this...i created this post only because i was so amused by the vagina dentata invention, hope it didn't cause any bad memories to surface 

ashley i'm truly shocked about queesland police...it's like reading the latest hoax google service on april fools...and just out of curiosity how bad's the crime rate over there?

I was about to say that I didn't think our crime rate was as bad as the US, but then I did some quick googling. It is true that some crimes like homicide are much less common here than in the United States, and I suspect that most crimes statistics here would be a little bit lower than the US.

More relevant to the topic however, on the subject of rape, we apparently have one of the highest rates of rape in the world, and pretty much THE highest rate in the western world.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita

[Miniar]

the highest rate of "reported" rapes

Iceland's nr. 10 on the list.

[lisagurl]

Unless you're in the UK, in which case you get sent to jail for assaulting the person breaking and entering, and they get a suspend sentence.

Remind me to stay away from socialist kingdoms. Justice starts with the individual not the government.
Post Merge: January 25, 2010, 05:14:06 PM

Accessibility of firearms is not the definition of freedom.

All places value freedom, what differs is just how it is expressed.

Freedom and liberty require no laws to inhibit how a person wants to live. It is not freedom when the government dictates the conditions.

[Miniar]

Freedom and liberty require no laws to inhibit how a person wants to live. It is not freedom when the government dictates the conditions.

So, everything should be legal?
And nothing should be taxed and tax-money shouldn't be used to pay for anything?

If everyone is free to do whatever they want without limitation or fear of arrest or any such thing do you really believe it'll lead to some sort of utopia?

There's no such thing as total and unlimited freedom because you always have to have at least one restriction for there to be any freedom at all.
That restriction being "you don't have the freedom to infringe upon the freedom of your fellow man". Without that restriction, there is no security, and without security, there is no freedom at all.

[Nicky]

The beauty of being able to move to a place that values freedom.

i.e. don't live in the states. If you lived in my country you would realise what a crock your so called freedom and liberty is, you live in a cage.

We can't own handguns in my country unless you belong to a special club. Standard gunshops don't stock them. You also can't carry weapons in public. The upshot of this is it gives police more power to deal with armed gangs and so on. It is a much safer place to live than the US.

I agree with Miniar.

I'm glad you survived Jenny and I think you made the best decisions you could at the time. Sometimes it is better to not fight to survive another day. What awful experiences those must have been. I wish these things did not happen to anybody.

[spacial]

Freedom and liberty require no laws to inhibit how a person wants to live. It is not freedom when the government dictates the conditions.

No, that's a nonsense, simply because it is unrealisable except on an Island with one person. (Even then it's debatable).

Freedom means that such restrictions as exist are based upon demonstrable social need and not dogma.

We restrict assault, theft and so on. We restrict certain types of relationships, especially concerning children, close relations, non-humans.

These and some others are demonstrable.


Some may attempt to justify restrictions based upon percieved association. There is a link in the News section to a newspaper article which makes a point of highlighting the crossdressing habits of some guy convicted of sexually assaulting some children. https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,71023.0.html

There is a long held belief, that was fairly prevalent when I was young, that all deviation form sexual norms were linked. So, someone indulging in homosexual behaviour was equally likely to fancy a spot of beastiality.

But these notions are a demonstrable nonsense.

Society, especially in socialist Kingdoms, is removing restrictions on behavaviour and lifestyle where these have no other bearing on society.

There is not and shouldn't be, any restrictions on relationships between people of the same sex for example.

The problems that remain in socialist Kingdoms are social acceptance. These problems exist in all societies. But it would seem that only in non-socialist republics can someone attempt to attract political attention, by promising to effectively legalise physical assaults on gay children.

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,71455.0.html

[Sarah Louise]

Like it or not as long as we live in this world, rape is going to happen.

It can happen to anyone, child or adult, male or female.  (I know from experience).

Total prevention is not possible, but we can limit our exposure by being aware of our surroundings, alert and through education.

Sarah L.