Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 08:36:31 -0400
From: sarah shook
Subject: Rape
It is a sad day when we are more offended by a reference to sociopolitical rape (which, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary was an appropriate use of the term in context) than rape by the sexual definition. You are not
doing rape victims any favors by showing offense to a remark that had no bearing on their individual tragedies.
Perhaps we should be more offended by those holding office who declare that a woman who is raped will not conceive because her body has a way of shutting it down. Or others that seem to believe the victim is at fault
for wearing revealing clothes or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It is that kind of remark and perspective that demands outrage.
-Sarah Shook-