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The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on May 7, 2013
Note to ThinkProgress blogger Tara Culp-Ressler: You got it all wrong. A RAPIST is the one who makes the victim feel worthless, dirty and filthy. Not the victim’s educational background. And using Elizabeth Smart? That’s pretty low … Are you blaming her and her faith for how she feels about the crimes committed against her?
It doesn’t matter if the victim is a prostitute or a Mormon, or if she received abstinence education or was schooled in a free-love philosophy. She will feel ashamed. She will feel violated. She will feel dirty and disgusted.
Why? Because rape is not about sex, as Culp-Ressler and ThinkProgress are insinuating here. Rape is a crime of power. By making the shame a victim feels afterward attributable to her education on sexuality, Culp-Ressler is embracing a philosophy similar (but far less intense and fatal than) Honor Killings, where rape victims are killed because they have been sexually “ruined.”
Again – Rape is not about the sex!
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