Comparing the crime of Rape to Car theft
All I could think of in response is that persons have alarms on their cars and locaters that contact police if your car has been stolen.
Got me to thinking.....
hmmmm... to prevent rape, maybe women could choose to wear new 21st century alam bell chastity belts to prevent rape.
If a womans privates were breeched by a rapist (who doesn't know the pass code) an electronic alarm could sound loudly and a message sent electronically to the cops. You could upgrade to the GPS locator for a few additional dollars a month for a premium subscription.
An added benefit to this new state of the art technolgy is consent could be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt because the woman would have a pass code to disarm it.
Why not?? harumph!!!
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I have a hard time with some of the usual suspects, because they are not logical and tend to form emotional opinions. They literally have nothing to say of importance, just stirring up shit. Pointless and boring. DU is at it's best when we learn from one one another.
Crap like comparing rape to car theft is not logical. Assuming women have unresolved 'issues' and that's why we Fight against rape is emotional. Of course there are many women who have been traumatized by rape, that's not even the point. The point is the implications that women experiencing rape trauma negates their arguments.
That's creeper talk, and I've seen it pop up now and again in a post.
What the mechanical vs body crime arguments do is ignore the history of rape. Not just the prevalence of rape but the history. How accepted rape is in classical literature, I'm not classically educated, but 'Leda and the Swan' is an in your face example, and rape is all over the place the classics.
The history of the status of women, from social to financial.
The religious influence on the status of women from 'the time of eve' which was literally true for most of Western civilization for much OF said history. Other cultures are similar, even The Buddha wasn't too impressed with the sexuality of women.
The history of marital rights of women. The history of prosecution. The under reporting because of shame. The hidden children from rape, or the placement of pregnant victims in 'girls homes'.
How easy it was to have women committed to mental institutions-- even for perceived 'promiscuity' or, perhaps a bit more modern (I have my doubts this is modern at all, from reading Victorian porn) so-called 'date rape' once laws against rape became clearer, the outcry stronger, rapists trying different ways to use women as orifice and get away with it, using still ingrained shame and guilt of victims. (I won't even go into the red herring arguments of false accusations, this is already long enough)
Rape as war weapon. Rape as a domestic and personal terrorist act, say in the case of sex workers or an abused significant other. (Maybe Rape should be prosecuted under the Patriot act, then that piece of shit legislation would have some use,
With a little research the whole concept would be easily refuted, and shown to be ridiculous. But as has been pointed out, education on the topic of rape isn't wanted. Just privilege maintained.
It's a complex, societal disease which is why your sarcastic solution touches the humor of the ironic.
It also is an irritating argument that shouldn't exist in any reasonable discussion of rape. It is, as Redqueen so often points out, a derailing tactic. Except I believe they really believe it, those who argue that way.
Yep. And in movies and tv, too. Geena Davis and Jennifer Siebel Newsom have done an amazing job of raising awareness.
And we need as many people as we can get, men and women, speaking out against it loudly and often, because there's no other way to fix it.
Fortunately we have many awesome people doing just that. 
