by Mentally Hilarious on Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:33 am
Because of my present situation, I fell I have a few things to say about it all. And even more now that I've read the thread.
Mods: if it's too old 'a thread too pull up, please don't delete it so I can copypaste the following post. It'll be long and shit
First, on the topic of rape. Just to set a light and happy mood for the rest.
Rape is not, and should never be something that gets blamed on the victim. It's not their fault, no matter how goddamn skimpy they dress. They should not be coerced into dressing in another way just because guys can't get their libido in order. I wont buy it under a-n-y circumstance that your average victim is to blame because of a short skirt.
Rape is one of the most demeaning forms of punishment you can deal on another person. Both in the physical and in the psycological way. Anyone with half-a-brain can go look up extensive reports on how rape often affects the victim more than, say, someone who got the crap beat out of them. Or even more harmful psycological to the victim than of those left behind a murder. The sheer force of the traumatizing effects rape has is incredible. Hence, no choice of garments should be used to explain it. It's just so fucking disrespectful.
As someone who have had people near me experiencing it first-hand, I'm not taking all my arguments from any academic report. Even though I could.
What really bothers me about rape, and the way it's handled in most countries (within the legal system) is that it's not up to the criminal to proove that he didn't rape her. It's up to the victim to proove that he did. Have you any idea how fucked that is? It's turning the base of most legal systems on it's head. And it's generally the way it's handled.
It's up to the woman to convince the judge that she did, infact, not want her clothes ripped to shreds and her most intimate place turned into the local merry-go-round. Pisses me off it does.
It should also be said that it's not general law that every woman claiming to be raped has been raped. Out of the (roughly) 2.000 reported raped in Sweden, approximatly 100 were false accusation. A way to explain adultery, a way to get back at the guy for not loving her and so on. This aswell has been something I experienced, if not myself. My best friend at the time got accused of raping a girl, he didn't and turned himself in. Turns out the girl already had a boyfriend and was trying to get away.
Still doesn't justify rape. In any way, shape or form.
Secondly, the sex.
Every selfadoring fuckhead who's never been in a position where you love someone and wants to have sex seem to have a brilliant suggestion as to how you avoid the pregnancy alltogether. Don't have sex. Sure, a viable point in itself. And very true. And yet doesn't ring well with me.
Sex is a primal instinct. It can be curbed, but not something I want to do. Simply because I like to have sex with the woman I love. It's intimacy like nothing else. Too loose myself in the folds of her loving body and just loose track of time, place and everything is a wonderful experience.
I want to share that with the person I love, and even though it's the perfect way of avoiding pregnancy, it's just not something I'm willing to do.
Maybe not the strongest point in my argumentation, but that's the way I feel.
Thirdly, birth-control
With all your pills, rods, condoms and spirals you should be able to protect yourself, right? Wrong. Dead fucking wrong aswell. None of the above protects you from any unwanted pregnancies to a 100% And in my case, pills, seemed to be fool-proof. But they might just not be.
For those who have read my thread will surely feel all smart and shit when you point out that we had sex one day after she stopped on the pill. Unfortunatly... the pills she was on is supposed to be offering protection to the 99.5% 24h after the last pill was taken. And 48h after it should be around 89%. So it's quite a good protective. (this information taken from a nurse that I work with)
You can protect the hell out of your penis/vagina, without reacing 100% certainty that you'll be safe. So even with protection you're at risk.
Fourth, the abortion-bit(the few of you that bothered this far, this is the part that actually is the real part)
The core of this question to me, regarding to where I stand, is the question of what abortion really is.
Is it murder when you do it so early that no nerves is developed (iow a lump of cells)? Not in my mind, I don't know if I'm really unsensitive about this. But since it's my own standpoint - I can be all I want.
I equal it to... cutting away your appendix, getting rid of a growth, removing a cyst (I don't know the proper word for this please enlighten me). It's removing a lump of cells that has no purpose yet.
Is it invasion of a womans body? H-e-l-l y-e-s! No doubt about it. For those of you that know what a "normal" abortion means can have no other opinion. They shove up a vacuumcleaner in her pussy (to be blunt), that's not nice! At all!
Does that mean that it's her choice? Yes. Exclusivly the womans choice. Had it been us (as in men) you would have felt the same thing. No-one here would want a vacuum-cleaner up your ass unless it was your choice. Why should anyone reserve the right to decide which types of medical equipment gets shoved where into another grown persons body? Doesn't make sense to me. Might be my notion of "freedom of will".
An unwanted baby is not something the world gets better by. Rather the opposite. We're enough people as it is, we sure as hell doesn't need more in it, aspecially those that aren't wanted from the beginning.
And regarding adoption that some seem to carry as an important factor. How about all those children stuck without parents in the third world? Why not adopt one of those, if you want to adopt? And there's unwanted babies enough to go around every person on every adoptionlist in the whole world. Instead of forcing someone to have a baby that they don't want, just to please some unfirtile bugger, let's make sure that the ones that are already here gets the chance of a decent life.
It's not as if the woman doesn't suffer permanent, and lifealtering changes if the baby is born. Their bodies change ...alot. Not something I want to force upon someone else unwillingly.
