tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319168.post8665147285522473907..comments2023-10-31T04:20:55.645-07:00Comments on passionate rationality by dallas curow: women: arm yourselvesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026289809911034999noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319168.post-79224325638862372902007-04-28T20:42:00.000-07:002007-04-28T20:42:00.000-07:00this post sparks to many dialogues in my brain and...this post sparks to many dialogues in my brain and makes me ill to my stomache on so many levels<BR/><BR/>it immediately reminded me of the situation at KING'S COLLEGE when the residence staff memeber was fired based on fact that he was known to hand out condoms to the students in his residence who asked for them. <BR/><BR/>KINGS college, being a cathloic affiliate college of the university, felt he was violating the religious foundations of the college by handing out condoms. <BR/><BR/>it is this complete negligence of social reality that makes the sexual lives a lot young people uneducated and effectively, unsafe.etc'dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14042620744785279630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319168.post-22349006677471816442007-04-26T08:36:00.000-07:002007-04-26T08:36:00.000-07:00Great post Dallas. This issue, or at least a relat...Great post Dallas. This issue, or at least a related one, comes up in my research too.<BR/><BR/>Did you know the Supreme Court once upheld an 'extreme intoxication' defence for perpetrators of sexual assault? This was in 1994! It basically said that if men got soooo drunk that they might not remember what happened, then they could not be convicted of rape. (Fortunately, Parliament enacted a new law that the Court has since upheld).<BR/><BR/>I obviously take a law and order stand on this stuff, but you're certainly correct to point out society needs to put more onus on men...Emmett Macfarlanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15960609247262368284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319168.post-11479680326771202322007-04-25T21:31:00.000-07:002007-04-25T21:31:00.000-07:00Not to mention the fact that this anti-rape condom...Not to mention the fact that this anti-rape condom is marketed as a means of providing "incriminating evidence" against your *inevitable* rapist, so that it's "no longer your word against his!" The notion that contemporary rape culture can be turned on its heel by the invention and marketing of a condom with teeth is both absurd and insulting. It's only this easy, ladies! Keep this in you at all times and your rapist will be "temporarily disabled...much worse than a kick in the groin that self defence instructors teach women!" Hmmm...but what about that short skirt she was wearing? What about how she was 'asking for it'? Somehow the premeditated use of a 'condom' seems like it'd f**k up a woman's case, given the culture we live in.<BR/><BR/>Besides, if we're going to be arming women with protection against rape now that we're responsible for this shit too, I'd rather have a machete, thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319168.post-86750754068077780792007-04-25T21:20:00.000-07:002007-04-25T21:20:00.000-07:00Excellent post Dallas, and I agree wholeheartedly....Excellent post Dallas, and I agree wholeheartedly.Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12387370007172205440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319168.post-38465833144791150102007-04-25T18:36:00.000-07:002007-04-25T18:36:00.000-07:00Hi Perry, I should clarify my thoughts, I guess. I...Hi Perry, <BR/>I should clarify my thoughts, I guess. I was using the anti-rape condom as a concrete example of the onus being placed on women to protect themselves, to literally carry a device such as this in their purse or their body to "fight back" at a rapist. I am thoroughly creeped out by the anti-rape condom. It seems to me that these should be used only in dangerous contexts where women might not have the opportunity to say no, or the legal status to defend herself, as is the case in some countries.<BR/><BR/>As a friend of mine said in an email to me in regards to the site's suggestion to slipping to the washroom on a date to insert the device if feeling threatened: "Yeah, how about, if you're on a date and you feel like buddy is capable of raping you later, you excuse yourself, go to the washroom, and climb out the f**king window?! Why prepare yourself for what you think is an inevitable rape when you could just get the f* out?!" <BR/><BR/>I suppose I am just bothered by the idea that such a device might be in demand.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13026289809911034999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319168.post-18263739104096846052007-04-25T15:28:00.000-07:002007-04-25T15:28:00.000-07:00Dallas,While I don't agree with most of your comme...Dallas,<BR/><BR/>While I don't agree with most of your comments, they are well and intelligently presented. We need more of this in our "profanity-laden" blogosphere.<BR/><BR/>It did seem strange to me that you spent much of the early article railing against the "onus" of responsibility being put on the woman when it comes to purity oaths, yet deemed it acceptable when it comes to the "anti-rape condoms."<BR/><BR/>Seems like a bit of a double standard.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of which, I think those are a great idea! Wish they made them in "guillotine" version. However, I did want to point out that both the manufacturer and you have misrepresented this product.<BR/><BR/>A "anti-rape" condom will not keep a woman from being raped, it will simply keep her from CONTINUING to be raped, as they require penetration to work.<BR/><BR/>Still think it's a great idea.<BR/><BR/>-PerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com