Disagreement is Like Being Raped?
Hot Air wants to focus on the first half of Joy Behar’s statements about Rumsfeld & Hitler, but I’m more shocked by her claim that someone calling into a radio show and disagreeing with her is like being a date rape victim. The sound you heard about 5 til 7 was my jaw hitting the ground. (I’d like to apologize to my downstairs neighbor for that.)
How does this bitch get off comparing having someone call her a name to having someone hold her down and rape her? Has she ever survived a rape? Has she worked with rape survivors? Would she like to hear the stories of what it’s like to be raped? I have heard those stories. As much as people can be assholes or idiots in the comments here, I would never compare them being jerks to some kind of physical attack, particularly one so serious. I cannot imagine what kind of heartless bitch Behar has to be to make that kind of statement and, under any circumstance, find it remotely amusing.
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Well, remember, she said date raped, which as I understand the current abuse of English, is not being held down and raped, but being browbeaten or guilted into having sex you later regret, or having sex while too inebriated to “really” consent.
The analogy with insulting callers is less stupid when you distinguish the two, but still stupid, because insulting callers are a well known, predictable, inevitable part of having a radio show, and thus not really even like “date rape”.
(Me, I’ve always thought “date rape” trivialised real rape by comparison, rather than – as the users intend – making drunken sex or guilt-tripping sex seem more serious or rape-like.)
Sigivald,
Date rape, as used by rape survivors and all those I’ve talked to about such subjects (usually in a larger context of self defense and guns), is a rape that happens on a date. It’s not some guy jumping out of the bushes, but it doesn’t mean that it’s not forced.
If you’re currently using that term to mean false allegations of rape by someone who regrets it later, please stop because you’re doing a disservice to those who actually experienced a very severe attack.
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As you know, I’m nowhere near experienced enough a prosecutor to have tried a rape case. But I’ve watched colleagues do it, and they’re brutal. My senior adviser within the office is the head of our sex crimes unit: he said he lost three victims to suicide the first two months he was there. For anyone to compare a mere verbal attack to something so horrific demonstrates a level of either ignorance or callousness that’s beneath contempt.
Well, I hate to come to Joy Behar’s defense, but you have to listen to her whole spiel here to get what she was trying to say.
She was saying that her experience on the radio was like date rape because first the callers are sweet and nice, “oh hi, I think you’re fantastic!” and then when she’s got her guard down, they start calling her names. It’s not the names that’s like date rape, it’s the fact that they start off nice, then attack.
It was an extreme exaggeration on her part, obviously, but at least try to get the context of her comparison.