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To: Responsibility2nd

This is warped on sooo many levels.

The first one that comes to my mind, is that while the person who has been assaulted shouldn’t be ashamed for something that was not her fault, to put this on a t-shirt seems to be displaying pride in it.


2 posted on 04/07/2008 2:42:58 PM PDT by wolfpat (If you don't like the Patriot Act, you're really gonna hate Sharia Law.)
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To: wolfpat
...to put this on a t-shirt seems to be displaying pride in it.

Even if, as seems to be the case, the words are displayed in tiny text on a card inside a imposing-looking safe?

It says to me "I was raped and I'm tired of feeling shame about it."

5 posted on 04/07/2008 2:45:25 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: wolfpat
to put this on a t-shirt seems to be displaying pride in it.

That's a reasonable interpretation.

Folks wear shirts indicating: attendance at or graduation from a university, their affection for a particular professional sports team, current or prior military service, current or prior employment with a particular company, participation in some sport, the fact of having visited or lived in some area or attraction ...

All of these, they wear because they take pride in the affiliation.

So ...

7 posted on 04/07/2008 2:47:12 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: wolfpat

When I was living in Ann Arbor during the early 1980’s some women’s group got it in their heads to spray-paint “A Woman Was Raped Here” on the ground in various locations, in order to heighten awareness of the crime. While in the beginning they may have tried to be accurate, after they realized that the message wasn’t getting out (women are not usually raped in well-travelled areas), they started spray-painting it everywhere. It became a joke.


9 posted on 04/07/2008 2:49:46 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: wolfpat

I dunno.....it would seem to me if there was a feeling that I had to convey and get across to others, this would be the one that I would HAVE to have a very strong feeling about. If you can imagine this from a male’s point of view, to advertise the corresponding crime (I was ‘buggered’ up the a$$ in jail, lockup, etc.) it would really take some damn guts and determination - there’s embarassment, shame, privacy and justice, all balled up into one pile. I don’t see it as sick; I see it as a desperate need to convey the sense of pure violation experience and a need to stop it.


29 posted on 04/07/2008 3:11:43 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: wolfpat

It’s like letting the rapist have the rest of your life.


30 posted on 04/07/2008 3:13:59 PM PDT by donna ("Women are not little men, and men are not big women.")
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To: wolfpat

It’s all about the victim culture. The display is about her pride is being morally superior to the rest of the people who don’t have her victim status.


39 posted on 04/07/2008 4:22:24 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: wolfpat
to put this on a t-shirt seems to be displaying pride in it.

You hit the nail on the head. We live in a society of "victims". To the Left, if you are not a victim or someone or something, your life has no meaning.

41 posted on 04/07/2008 4:32:50 PM PDT by montag813
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