# Disputation and The Straight Dope Message Board **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 25, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disputation-and-the-straight-dope-message-board/843977 "2019-11-25T18:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 344
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disputation-and-the-straight-dope-message-board/843977/344 "2019-12-03T20:39:27Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > The 2011 thread made for an interesting read. I found **Jragon** ’s position to be closest to mine, especially the exchange midway through between **Jragon** and **SpiceWeasel**. I’m sorry **margin** , but I just don’t agree with your level of outrage in that thread from eight years ago. Especially given the mindset from the 2006 pit thread, I think you came across as throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Contempt for the actual rapists is implied and obvious. I am not outraged that the discussion was mostly about the community and the victim, and I don’t think anybody in that thread blamed the victim. Don’t use my posts in that thread they were wrong. For one I was a shitty person 8 years ago and being on this board since I was 16 and impressionable world-view-wise was a big part of it, I wasn’t slapped down hard enough for making bullshit “emotionally detached” arguments about shit like rape and pedophilia. My change happened I think that same year, but it was getting temp-banned from another board for doing the “pedophilia and ephebophilia aren’t the same thing and people shouldn’t feel bad for being pedophiles/ephebophiles anyway as long as they don’t act on it,” something which is, at best, not something you should say because it culturally defends pedos, and is an argument I came across repeatedly on this damn board. I had also been repeatedly coerced into sex by my partner the last couple years before that and was trying to make sense of why I kept letting it happen and took it out on that news story by trying to rationalize what had gone wrong in her (my) life that she (I) didn’t do “the right thing” after. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disputation-and-the-straight-dope-message-board/843977)._