RE: Are Women Who Dress Provocatively Responsible for Unwanted Attention, or Should Men Learn to Control Themselves?
maybe that's is it! men need to be taught to control themselves,, by good parenting and family..
im so sorry you have had to have anything to do with rape, and the most dark and disgusting use of male power. This was a hard question, and i tried to frame it in a way that indicated none physical attention.. but i wasn't totally clear about it. so just to affirm that any unwanted physical contact is not OK under any circumstances.. and should be met with condemnation from all peers and witnesses. I am the kind of guy who would, and have, gotten in between and stopped abuse when seen in public.
i have to say that statistic
"highest rates of reported sexual assault in the world, at almost 92 people per 100,000 of the population, according to the United Nations"
is totally ridiculous! I would guestimate the real figure to be more like 60-80,000 out of 100,000.. but we will never really know.
so thank you for sharing so openly and with all your real authentic feelings.. its what makes this QOTW very special. <3
Sorry - had a night's sleep in between! I do think good parenting matters, as well as good education about emotional intelligence and a culture that raises them to be more in tune with this and what is acceptable. I heard a great talk on the radio last night which was quite timely about how we need to do away with feminism precisely because we should work toward community - no either/or, rising of female to oppress trad male energies, but a world that finds solutions together, and though it seems idealistic, we should all be doing that with everything we do and say.
Bless, I know that you meant that unwanted male attention didn't mean rape, but I guess now you realise that's where we see it going, as woman who are subject to these things. And if we allow those 'little' things, where does one draw the line? Is it okay to make a JOKE about woman, for example, being chained to the kitchen when domestic violence is one of the biggest killers of woman in the world??? Certainly Australia it is.
I do think that stat is probably less that it definitely is - and I know the stats for male victims is also much, much higher but is under reported. What a world we live in - it can be really depressing at times.