tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post3365508755081440130..comments2023-06-17T08:52:41.677-05:00Comments on Doubting Thomas: Can We Re-Define ‘Rape’?Doubting Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13796734804009001783noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-62507979395835954272013-11-04T19:35:44.129-06:002013-11-04T19:35:44.129-06:00So many men in positions of power, any kind of pow...So many men in positions of power, any kind of power, think that a woman is there to be used and discarded. They think they will face no punishment, no judgement. But, after all else, they will face the highest judge and that judge will know and then they will face their punishment. I am not overly religious, but I know that there will be a judgement day. These men (and I call them that with tongue in cheek) who did this crime are if anything, worse than some random man on the street doing this. This woman was a medic there to help them in a time of need, to help with accidents, injuries. To think that they did this to a woman in that position, it is just unbelievable. I think she should be handed one of those assault weapons that the Republicans think should be available to all, and have those men lined up in front of her. That poor woman will never have a normal life, or relationship after what she went through. It was unspeakably evil. I am so sad for her. Sharrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237028025481415807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-82864264422797019882013-11-04T18:29:39.303-06:002013-11-04T18:29:39.303-06:00Should women be allowed in the military, should th...Should women be allowed in the military, should the military be allowed to drink? Please.. How about asking why do these men rape? Why do they think what they did is okay? Why are they not all in prison? These men are scum. Women have the same right as any man to serve their country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-87592098687560884932012-04-13T09:11:15.639-05:002012-04-13T09:11:15.639-05:00Somebody drugs you, ties you up and rapes you and ...Somebody drugs you, ties you up and rapes you and somehow it ends up being your fault? I don't get that. This was a crime and all these men belong in jail, as does the officer for colluding in the crime by protecting them.Vivianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310195368273952403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-65682117555622303702012-04-12T13:51:06.463-05:002012-04-12T13:51:06.463-05:00Damned if you do, and damned if you don't. I&#...Damned if you do, and damned if you don't. I've lived this story too. Once I was too drunk to fight back (I was passed out and came to in a whole new place, not knowing to this day how I got there) and the next time I was in my own apartment. That's only two of the four stories I have to tell. It kept happening, so it must be, right? Wrong. We live in a pathological world of sexual violence that works for no one and it will not change until we change it. Reposted. Tweeted.... <br /><br />I'm with you, my sister. <3Laura Murphyhttp://wildethymeart.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-39462818128954721892012-04-11T13:56:46.806-05:002012-04-11T13:56:46.806-05:00As a husband, father, brother and son I weep for t...As a husband, father, brother and son I weep for the violence done to women and will continue to stand with women in their fight against those who wish to oppress and subjugate them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-21934819472905073852012-04-11T13:54:29.676-05:002012-04-11T13:54:29.676-05:00This should mandatory reading for EVERY politician...This should mandatory reading for EVERY politician in this country! You should be commended for having the courage to tell your story. I hope you are continuing to heal. Stay strong.Cindynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-31656107149049398132012-04-11T13:42:21.701-05:002012-04-11T13:42:21.701-05:00Thank you. Thank you. When I was 16, I was raped. ...Thank you. Thank you. When I was 16, I was raped. I was a virgin. I remember the blood, everywhere, and being sick. For weeks. I DID get pregnant. When I finally told my family what happened to me, they didn't believe me. I was told it was my fault, and that I must have done something to deserve it. They did, however, allow me to get an abortion--a lifesaver for me, as I could only picture my pregnancy as a punishment, a tumor, something malignant and terrible. It's taken years to become a whole person again, but I am whole. Most of the time...but these hateful tactics being forwarded by conservatives make me feel the same pain and powerlessness I felt so many years ago. I'm scared, for me and for all women.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-8463180840822406682012-04-11T13:37:03.356-05:002012-04-11T13:37:03.356-05:00Thank you for telling your story. I hope for heali...Thank you for telling your story. I hope for healing for you. I hope for love for you. I will keep you in my mind as I continue to fight in this war upon women that has flared up again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-70556845179353726662012-03-01T19:03:19.506-06:002012-03-01T19:03:19.506-06:00I tried to read this out loud to a dear friend&...I tried to read this out loud to a dear friend&couldn't,because the tears were choking me with every word.There are NO words to describe that pit that forms in your stomach when you read about this,unless like you,I also have been through it.May you be blessed in your Life,you are truly a brave soul,and may the Light of understanding crack through one day,to those Cons of Congress' Stone Hearts so that NO ONE ever will have to pay the price of this&then be mentally raped all over agin by being forced to carry a rape child.There is a VERY special place in Hell for those who would be an accomplice to a rape,by ANY means&the sooner these evil demons masquarading as Servants of God get there,the better.Be well&may you continue to heal.We know all to well just how dark&alone it can be,so let us remind ourselves as you have,to try&be the outstrectched hand that is there for those who are still trying to tread water in that cold dark sea of pain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-1957292357098749202011-11-13T18:42:03.250-06:002011-11-13T18:42:03.250-06:00I can not begin to even imagine what you went thro...I can not begin to even imagine what you went through. I am so very sorry for your pain and what happened to you. I truly wish every male in that room and who are responsible would be punished in public by every ounce of our justice system BUT I do know God will punish them each and every last one of them. <br />My mother was raped. She did become pregnant.<br />Her first child is the product of that rape. My mother loves her as her first born and always will. I adore and love my sister and can not imagine not having her in our lives and the nieces she has given our family.<br />With that said many rape victims do not see that child as a reminder BUT it is the woman alone who can determine if she will view that child in hate or love if she is able to do so. <br />I pray God heals you totally and that one day you will be completely whole. As I read I see you are getting there. I wish you all the blessings this life has to offer and I truly pray for your complete healing and vindication. I know you will have it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-15641186894287419572011-09-14T07:48:14.116-05:002011-09-14T07:48:14.116-05:00Julie you are not sorry for her pain, as a matter ...Julie you are not sorry for her pain, as a matter of fact on my thread you called her story suspect. You went as far as calling those of us who don't report our rape cowards! Luckily, I don't think abortion will ever be outlawed again, but if it ever is believe me you have saved no one because just as they happened before Roe vs Wade they will continue. All you will have managed to do is shove your beliefs down others throats. How about the novel idea of you worry about your body, and let others worry about theirs. SMH!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-9155126552553922602011-09-13T06:19:23.920-05:002011-09-13T06:19:23.920-05:00*pain**pain*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-6639232753457850152011-09-13T06:18:47.514-05:002011-09-13T06:18:47.514-05:00I'm so sorry for your paid. Very sad - speaks ...I'm so sorry for your paid. Very sad - speaks to alot of issues including should women be allowed in the military; should military be allowed to drink? As far as the birth of an unborn child goes, the anti-abortion politicians (including the newest bill) exclude rape, incest, and when the mother's life is endagered from the ban. Get the facts, people!! ~ JulieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-77349123217335244712011-09-13T03:01:32.751-05:002011-09-13T03:01:32.751-05:00As a survivor myself I WILL be reposting this. Sad...As a survivor myself I WILL be reposting this. Sadly, there are people that will still defend the right of some cells with the POTENTIAL to become an independant life over the rights of a woman. Let's not forget those that advocate the death penalty, yet want to mark a woman with a scarlet A for getting an abortion. No one should have the right to dictate what I do with my body. If it was up to some I would have had to carry a baby at 14 if I had gotten pregnant. Thank you for sharing and I am sorry you had to deal with any of that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-52136631152633129772011-09-12T11:25:50.018-05:002011-09-12T11:25:50.018-05:00I admire your bravery and your determination; I am...I admire your bravery and your determination; I am appalled by what you had to endure, both during and after, and I am outraged by politicians' attempts to politicize a woman's right to control her own body.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-63113885715263025712011-09-02T17:21:56.583-05:002011-09-02T17:21:56.583-05:00I can't say I identify with your story, as a m...I can't say I identify with your story, as a man who has never been raped. I can't even begin to fathom how horrible it must have been, and much pain you went through.<br /><br />For that very reason alone, I find the actions of the Cons whose only interest is subjugating women to be deplorable. How many of them truly understand even an iota of the experience? How many of them can say they've lived it? And yet they try to impose their own narrow view upon an experience that is entirely alien to them, that they could never properly fathom.<br /><br />It makes me sick to my stomach to think that some people would be willing to put their own wives and daughters, and if the fates are cruel, someday even my wife, through something so horrible as forcibly reopening her wounds and keeping her from securing at least some tiny measure of justice and security.<br /><br />You're an incredibly strong woman, and you have my everlasting respect. Don't ever give up, you've got both men and women at your back who stand with you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-68513610026833699132011-09-02T10:53:49.450-05:002011-09-02T10:53:49.450-05:00This is quite probably the single-most-powerful st...This is quite probably the single-most-powerful story of rape I've ever read. <br /><br />While I wish it had never happened - I'm glad you posted this. I've reposted it, myself. Everyone should know this story and the consequences of Congress's dreadful, immoral actions.<br /><br />(I've made a bit of a study of the military of late; the only conclusion a person can reach is that we now have the world's most-lethal force full of victims of the 'poverty draft' [aka 'volunteer army']; as a result, apart from a handful like yourself who enlisted out of idealism and a genuine desire to serve your fellow American, today's American military is full of Hooterville-bred Red-staters who'd just as soon take their aggressions out on any defenseless human being.<br /><br />They're now largely Fundamentalists who believe that nuking half the planet until it glows in the dark is a good way of solving problems - and if they're ordered to turn that lethality on the rest of America, they'd do that too - as long as they could kill Liberals.<br /><br />One man with whom I spoke at length summed it up pretty well: "I didn't put this uniform on for you. I put it on for me and mine."<br /><br />Today, they're cutting off noses and ears as 'trophies of the day' in Afghanistan - if they're not assaulting 18 year old medics in tents, they're raping Afghan girls for sport. <br /><br />We have a lot of blood on our hands as a country - including yours. <br /><br />I'd like to put an end to this the day-before-yesterday, complete with hanging the perpetrators in public. <br /><br />They have created more enemies - foreign and domestic - than they can ever possible 'sort out'.<br /><br />My best to you. Sincerely.)astranavigohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11182458764131811634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-81776497282566097582011-09-02T00:12:13.258-05:002011-09-02T00:12:13.258-05:00I am so sorry for your experience. No human being ...I am so sorry for your experience. No human being should ever have to go through that kind of pain. I may not agree with all of your analogies for the fetus, but I absolutely agree with your position. The thought that a woman could be forced to bear a child that was conceived through such a brutal and violent act is sickening. Thank you for sharing your story, and for bringing this ridiculous bill to light. This story will be shared. You are an incredibly strong woman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-57522292960446980532011-09-01T21:25:27.127-05:002011-09-01T21:25:27.127-05:00Thank you for having the courage for posting this....Thank you for having the courage for posting this. I too am a rape survivor, but I did not get so "lucky". I got pregnant, but fortunately for me I had the choice not to relive the horror by being forced to endure nine months of pregnancy and birth. I could not have lived through that the memories are enough without a physical reminder. I am enraged by what these politicians continue to do. They have no idea or they just don't care about what taking away these rights would do to women in these situations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-19318727109673108152011-09-01T19:37:55.594-05:002011-09-01T19:37:55.594-05:00I am crying, as a rape survivor myself, as a woman...I am crying, as a rape survivor myself, as a woman, as a caring human being. Thanks for your story, and I too have shared on my facebook page. As women we have little of the freedom from fear as men do, what right do men have to take away the freedom we have over our own bodies. We have fought long and hard to win those freedoms, how dare they even try and take them away. My prayers are with you for writing this, I am with ya sister.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-63517884512188215882011-09-01T17:47:51.612-05:002011-09-01T17:47:51.612-05:00I was -- I hate to use the word "lucky" ...I was -- I hate to use the word "lucky" -- that I was too young when it happened to me to become pregnant. Had it been even a year later, that would have been a possibility. How much fighting back can a 12-14 year old girl really do against a fully-grown man? When you're face down against the asphalt with the weight of an adult on you and both your arms twisted so far behind you that they're nearly broken already, how hard can you really fight back? Is that enough for these asshole cons? Or should every child who survives also be forced to carry their attacker's child, putting them at serious risk of death again? It's better for the girl to end up dead than let her have an abortion?<br /><br />I'm proud of you for having the force of will to survive this and for having the courage to tell your story. It's the only way people will ever understand, to hear it first-hand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-61761408159708258902011-09-01T16:46:10.128-05:002011-09-01T16:46:10.128-05:00I have been raped as well. It was not by some man ...I have been raped as well. It was not by some man that jumped out of the bushes. It was someone I knew very well. No, I too was lucky enough to not become pregnant. I understand this all too well. I too am OUTRAGED at what is going on, yet I am still ashamed. I am not sure what I am more ashamed of, what happened to me, or the fact that I live in a country that has a government that feels this way. I cannot leave a name on this post. Many people do not know this has happened to me and I'm not really keen on it getting out. I have however shared this so people will become aware. I have spoken out as well, just not as a victim. I hope people will understand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-63889767122909650742011-09-01T14:35:10.281-05:002011-09-01T14:35:10.281-05:00I only have prayer that we STOP this madness, the ...I only have prayer that we STOP this madness, the carnage of humanity! Listen to the women when they speak. HEAR the pain the need to be really FREE to make the decisions that THEY must make. Ain't it tough enough???W. Sunni Ash Sr.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-50182595577901824222011-09-01T13:59:05.899-05:002011-09-01T13:59:05.899-05:00This is what I've been trying to say all along...This is what I've been trying to say all along, but you said it much better. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8880717331779773015.post-87130699614402004822011-09-01T13:54:04.680-05:002011-09-01T13:54:04.680-05:00I don't even know what to say. Let's just...I don't even know what to say. Let's just say I had to explain the tears to a room full of people as I read this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com