So at least eight men have sexually assaulted at least ten developmentally disabled women....

[Shot_From_Guns]

@villa

In a 1986 survey by Neil Malamuth of UCLA, 30% of male participants admitted they would commit rape if they knew there was no chance of being caught. When the survey changed from “rape” to “force a woman into having sex” over 50% said they would do it if they knew they would not be caught. Unfortunately, it isn’t a rare viewpoint.

It’s also scary as shit that 20% of participants considered forcing a woman to have sex to be in a qualitative way different from raping a woman.

Exactly. And someone pointing out that attitudes like this are disgusting is dismissed. Mainly by a bunch of men. What a shock. :rolleyes:

@Lemur866

If I’m in a store and the clerk is gone, I sometimes think, “Huh, I could just grab anything and walk out.” Or at a bank, a couple times I’ve thought about giving the clerk a note to hand over all the money, real smooth like George Clooney in “Out of Sight”. Like, what would really happen if I did that? Or, I work for a large software company, what would happen if I started sending crazy emails to billg? Would it be ignored, or would some HR person come talk to me about it? Or the old, you’re driving over a bridge and you think, what would happen if I just swerved into the guardrail?

None of these things is remotely comparable to rape.

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

What about drawing a giant Sharpie penis on her face?

Is the penis ejaculating into her mouth? Does it have humerous googly eyes above the balls? Is there scraggly pubic hair?

These are all very important considerations.

[bup]

You’re starting to slobber.

[Lemur866]

@Shot_From_Guns

None of these things is remotely comparable to rape.

Because they aren’t violent? How about if I briefly fantasize about punching annoying people?

Or is this like when you go to confession, and confess to the priest that you had erotic thoughts, and he asks if you entertained them. That is, there’s a certain level of sin to having erotic thoughts, and a higher level if you entertained those thoughts?

I guess I don’t see the ethical difference between idly entertaining thoughts of sexual crime, violent crime, suicide, mayhem, property crime, or random weird stuff like fighting cheetahs naked.

It’s not like I have these sorts of thoughts often, it’s that they happen sometimes. So when you say if I have this sort of thought, even for a second, about sexual crimes that I’m fucked in the head, I kind of disagree. I’d agree that I was fucked in the head if I thought about sexual crime often, or if I felt I had to exert serious control over myself to stop myself from committing them in real life. But a few seconds of contemplation?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Shot_From_Guns

Is there scraggly pubic hair?

You can’t have a giant Sharpie penis without it.

[Skywatcher]

@Miller

Shodan is clearly benefiting from the general attitude of bonhomie his posts typically engender on this message board. What with him being such a popular and widely-liked fellow around these parts, it was, of course, inevitable that your attack on him would fail to gain any traction here.

Bonhomie don’t play that.

d&r

[Malacandra]

@Lemur866

Because they aren’t violent? How about if I briefly fantasize about punching annoying people?

Or is this like when you go to confession, and confess to the priest that you had erotic thoughts, and he asks if you entertained them. That is, there’s a certain level of sin to having erotic thoughts, and a higher level if you entertained those thoughts?

In Soviet Russia, erotic thoughts entertain you!

Also in my head.

[Peremensoe]

For once, the Russkis have it right.

[Drunky_Smurf]

@Miller

…rapists,… racists…

Try saying that 3 times really fast.