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gollygee

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7. And imagine if she'd gone

Reply to seabeyond (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 09:34 AM

Mar 2014

"Who goes to a strange man's room without knowing what he wants? Of course she wanted it or she wouldn't have gone."

And if she'd said no but was very polite, "Well you can't give mixed messages like that and expect men to understand. How was he supposed to know she didn't want it?"

Teaching us to be polite is teaching us to be easily controlled IMO.

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How To Avoid Being Raped [View all] gollygee Mar 2014 OP

Yup, Might as well make a prison and stay in it. KitSileya Mar 2014 #1

Just as well you can never drink anything gollygee Mar 2014 #2

i gotta throw in. only the monsters, the psychos, the few. so really, what are us women seabeyond Mar 2014 #11

so fuggin' funny. too true. rape week. not rape porn week, but i am talking rape week seabeyond Mar 2014 #3

Yeah I remember gollygee Mar 2014 #4

exactly. the elevator was a woman at 4 am in alone with a man. he asked her back to HIS room seabeyond Mar 2014 #5

And imagine if she'd gone gollygee Mar 2014 #7

and of course. no is not always no. cause there was a study, in the 80's with a handful of seabeyond Mar 2014 #8

That, my dear sea, was Rebecca Watson KitSileya Mar 2014 #9

that. i could not do justice to the whole story and the womans name. and yes, that. seabeyond Mar 2014 #10

She was pilloried here on DU for that. For daring to say to men, redqueen Mar 2014 #12

and ya, empty parking lot, crossing the street at night when a man is approaching. seabeyond Mar 2014 #6

I had to give my husband a good talking-to on that eridani Mar 2014 #13