Monday, November 14, 2011

Don't Shoot Your Rapist; Educate Them Instead

An op-ed over at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal's website advises that education and awareness--and strong words--are the best weapons against rape:
First, we as a community need to step up and tell perpetrators that we won't tolerate their actions. If you see someone harassing, following, assaulting or intimidating a woman, step in and call for help.

Teach the men in your life that no means no and that sexual assault is never acceptable. Hold your friends and acquaintances accountable. Don't ignore behavior that makes you feel uncomfortable. Watch out for one another.
Because, clearly, telling a determined rapist to stop will always make them stop.

As can be shown in every case of rape in which this has happened.

Yeah.

Let me know how that works out for you.

2 comments:

Braden Lynch said...

No, my daughters will be trained to shoot the SOB rapists. Rape is not sex, it is violence. They can talk to them about the wrongness of their intended action, while they are taking careful aim...hopefully to emasculate them!

Ace said...

Damn straight. My wife and I will also be teaching our daughter to shoot the SOB.

And forget emasculation. I want them to put the sorry bastard down.

Required reading for them will be Snyder's "A Nation of Cowards" and the wolves-sheep-sheepdog essay.

Thanks for commenting, Braden.