Being impregnated during a rape is just like getting a flat tire?

[Anonymous]

According to Kansas state Rep. Pete DeGraaf, becoming impregnated from rape is like a getting flat tire. He believes that women should 'prepare' for rape.

Do you think it's a fair comparison? How does it make you feel to know a government official has the audacity to say this?

Seriously, he has life insurance to prepare for death, and a spare tire in his car, why shouldn't we 'prepare' for rape? Women, please expect to be raped! It's common sense, prepare yourselves!

"How do women plan ahead for rape?" By taking precautions, of course! Women should never appear in public without a brother, father, husband or son to guard them. Women shouldn't try to be so independent; a woman who drives a car or knows how to read is just pure temptation for those lustful men. Women should also stop dressing so suggestively; burqas are now available in many attractive shades of black and dark gray!

Here's the article:

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Rape is the ONLY crime where the victim is deemed the one to be guilty.

In addition to the questions I've already asked, how you suggest we "prepare for rape?"

Perhaps these? link

[Armada]

I talk to my mom and the women in my life all the time about scumbags that would commit rape. I BEG her to get a damn conceal carry license but she keeps insisting "when I'm out, I'm with your father" or "it will never happen to me". You women need to be more sensible about this. Seriously. It's not hard to buy a gun or tazer and defend yourselves from these assholes. Men are for the most part, physically stronger than women and they will get what they want if you are not armed. I agree with the article to an extent. I don't care how you women dress in public as long as you are able to pack heat. I actually think it's more important for a woman to get a CCW (conceal carry permit) than it is for a man.

[Asker]

Thats a good start, but how about we put a stop to this bull sh*t and teach men not to rape? Sounds more effective.

[Armada]

Everyone knows that rape is wrong. Men will still act on this because they know they can. I don't want to sound sexist but this is one thing that pisses me off about women. You guys NEED to protect yourselves. I don't care if you study martial arts or have taken "rape prevention classes". If a guy physically assaults you, you will not stand a chance unless you have a damn gun. They don't call it the great equalizer for nothing.

[Asker]

I don't disagree that guns would be more effective, but its silly to think the women most prone to rape can afford it, which are the poor women in the project. It's great protection if you can afford it. And no, not everyone knows its wrong. There are plenty of rape apologists walking among us. One in four women are raped, that doesn't scream that people know rape is wrong.

[Armada]

I don't care who you are or how you were raised. You will KNOW RAPE IS WRONG. I don't know what the hell a rape apologist is but that sounds like some bullsh*t. Guns are not expensive at all. They can be bought for as low as 100 dollars from the LEGITIMATE market. A rapist can apologize all he wants. I would still think they're better off dead.

[Asker]

rape apologists are people who basically think rape is okay, and its the womans fault.

[Armada]

They are delirious. Anything you say to them will not persuade them otherwise. Don't be fooled into thinking these people can be changed. They are blaming the women for being raped. That's indication enough that these guys are just insane.

[Coopherst91]

Thats a horrifying comparison and no woman should prepare for rape in the sense it could happen. I think women shouldn't be alone in questionable areas and have rape whistles and/or pepper spray, being prepared for rape in the sense of preventing it I agree with but a flat tire is good for a headache and nothing a couple bucks can't fix. Rape has been the cause of suicide and lots of people developing psychological issues because of it. So no I vehemently disagree with the comparison and the fact a government official said this is appaling.

[Chocobo93]

Prepare for rape!? What the heck!? We shouldn't have to prepare for rape, but the sad thing is that it's out there. If I'm walking alone to my car I always hold my car key in between my middle and ring finger so I can gouge their eyes out if need be. Oh by the way, anti-rape condom ftw.

[Asker]

Yeah, the anti-rape condoms were made for virgin women in Africa who were being raped because guys thought that if you had AIDS and raped a virgin, it would be cured :| Sometimes, I question whether some people can even be considered human beings.

[Armada]

No offense but I hate when girls say this. Do you understand how hard it would be to hit such a small area especially if the element of surprise is ALWAYS on their side? If you punch him expect severe retaliation. Why not make it easier for yourself and just buy a gun? They make small caliber hand guns that are light weight and very slim. A .22 caliber to the head is much more effective than using a key to gouge someone's eye out.

[Asker]

I can't afford that, simple as that.

[Chocobo93]

True true, it's better then nothing though. I guess I can always fall back on a roundhouse to the face. ^_^

[Armada]

They make handguns chambered in .22 for 350 dollars. That is f***ing cheap and will go bang when you need it to.

Hell, just off the top of my head:

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No recoil at all. You can even shoot it without hearing protection though I don't recommend it. You have 8 shots. You don't have to worry about missing as he will be close to you so all you have to do is put it against his head and pull the trigger. Or shoot him in the heart.

[Asker]

I don't even get paid 350 a week. F***, I barely make rent. That's NOT cheap.

[RFSCaveman]

Just carry around a knife, so "IF" you do get attacked, you can castrate him right there so he can't rape or be a man again lol

[RFSCaveman]

and not a little dittzy pocket knife, I mean a nice long combat knife

[queenofpeen]

You remind me of Stephen Colbert. <3

But yeah, this guy is just another ignoramus who doesn't grasp the concept of rape or the basics of human rights.

[Asker]

Thanks ;D

[Brooke03]

Thats a horrible thing to say. Women shouldn't dress a certain way to avoid rape. Men should be taught how not to rape.

[phenixblack]

no women should have to prepare for rape that is the stupidist sh*t I have ever heard no women should ever have to even think they are going to get raped..but I guess you could take some form of dtt training it's only a 8 hour class that trains you on what to do in certain holds and when someone grabs in

[nbc5023]

I don't think he meant that Rape is only as bad as getting a flat tire.I think he was only comparing the two as things people would not normally expect.

[Gregs]

Sounds like he is good willing, but has a terrible way with words in the public scene where the media will blow up everything you, he's right tho, think about this saying, imagine I'm talking from a ghetto where there is lots of gang violence "murder is like getting a flat tire, you need to be prepared, don't wear gang colours and don't walk around at night on your own"

It sounds like common sense right? The reality is the world is not always a happy place and I'm sure he is doing everything to help make it better, but reality is reality and if you ignore it and start attacking people who actually come out and say REALITY and not a candy filled ver of reality "Women should feel safe walking alone everywhere, go out ladies and dress as prevocative as you can and make sure you are alone taking the side streets" that sounds worse to me

[Asker]

So not only should I walk in constant fear of being raped, its my fault for dressing provocatively and walking alone? How about we just stop blaming the victim, be a man and make sure to educate young men that rape is WRONG under ANY circumstance?

[Asker]

And trust me, I get it: time and place are important. I know I should be aware and what not, but I should not expect to be raped, and statements like his make it seem like it's not their fault for raping me.

[Asker]

64% of women were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date as of 2009. Doesn't sound like my miniskirt and heels are the problem here.

[Armada]

Agreed. I understand what he is trying to say. I don't know why people are calling him a sexist and republican when all that is irrelevant.

[Asker]

Because he's forcing a pregnancy on a woman that had no say in? He's a vile human being and him being republican is extremely relevant.

[Armada]

The rapist is forcing pregnancy on woman that had no say. This guy needs to watch his wording. I am NOT blaming women for being raped. It is not their fault. I'm saying you guys need to take measures to prevent and stop it from happening. I don't know what being a republican has to do with anything but I'll admit I am ignorant when it comes to politics.

[Gregs]

no one is saying that rape isn't WRONG, you are missing the point completely I don't want to have a brick break my skull at a construction site, so I wear a helmet, I don't start attacking the foreman for saying I need to be "in constant fear of falling bricks", that doesn't mean he is going to start throwing bricks around at people, if anything it's republicans that push for strict laws for rapists, including the death penalty, think for yourself instead of following your feminist, leftist dogm

[Asker]

I don't have to be anything more than thankful for something that SHOULD be done anyways. I'm concerned with the laws that concern the RAPED more than I am the rapist. And funny you mention me being on the left's side when in reality, I myself am a conservative. and I'm not a feminist. And the death penalty is irrelevant in the issue because the party has leaned to dismantle it in most cases, including rape.

[Gregs]

Your not a democrat? Sure fooled me. In a question just below me you agreed with a guy that blatantly said how evil republicans are, and in this question alone you said that him being a republican IS relevant, and then you said in another that you are pro-abortion, that doesn't sound too conservative to me so I wonder if you are just saying that to make your point, regardless, you just showed how retarded you are, harsher sentences for rapists means those rapists spend more time OFF the street

[Gregs]

If anything, victims need to be held under higher scrunity to avoid another Duke Lecross team, it's stuff like that that makes real rape victims looked down upon by society, stupid girls that go over to strangers houses at 3am in the morning to drink and take drugs and then cry rape

[Asker]

Conservative in the traditional sense, meaning government should only play a role to protect us. and if you can't understand that, you're pretty dumb and blinded by the typical America political spectrum. Like I said, I shouldn't have to be overly thankful for something that should be done. What I'm upset about is being forced to carry a child that was a result of a rape that someone had NO control over. That's not something the average victim can prepare for- statistically speaking.

[Asker]

Again with the placing guilt on the victim. I've said it before and I'll say it again: 64% of women were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date as of 2009. That random "time and place" bs is the extreme minority.

[Gregs]

hey, I agree, you shouldn't have to carry a rapist child unless you want too and if you don't you need to have the freedom to get an abortion, I don't really know much about the american insurance system so I don't understand that, I was just answering YOUR question about what he said not the bill that he passed

[Gregs]

yeah, and how many of those rape "victims" are disgruntled wives getting revenge on their husband? it's the mentality that women can do no wrong, NO, if you give women the power to completely destroy someone's life without any risk to them ofcourse women are going to take the opportunity, because in life there are evil women AND evil men

[Gregs]

So your saying a huge % of women "raped" are "raped" by people they already had sex with many times, and you think they are not likely to be the kind of person that would accuse their husband of rape to get back at them rather than just leave the relationship?

[Asker]

No. You clearly have no understanding of the actual thought processes triggered by being raped. If someone is unwilling, they are unwilling. No amount of years in a marriage will change that. All rapes are forcible rapes.

[Gregs]

So they have sex every night, then one night she has a headache and the guy "rapes" her, she can't give it up for one night that badly that she needs to call the police, have the guy arrested and locked up and have them take full custody away from his kids, all because suddenly, for one night, in years, she didn't feel like doing something she did every single day before then, that is rape to you? So lets look at it from the other side, say a woman gives her husband a blow job every morning

[Gregs]

one morning he wakes up and she is giving head to him, he says, "hone, stop, I'm too tired, I don't want you to get me off" she playfully says, "I'm going to get you off so hard" "no hone no, don't suck my cock, If you suck it I'm going to be so tired" but she is too good and manages to suck him off and make him cum, now doesn't that sound ridiculous to you? Do you think that guy should have any right to have the woman locked away for years and be labled as a sex offender by society, and be disow

[Gregs]

ned by her family and friends, and have custody of their children taken away? Well the sex was unwilling, and the guy felt really, really bad about it, so I guess she needs to be arrested and go to prison? Probably not, you probably think the guy has some mental problem or is full of sh*t if he came up and said that to you. Well just because the law got to the asinine state where a woman can cry rape and have a guy's life be f***ed up on a whim doesn't make it any different to me

[Asker]

If he said no and she continued, that's rape. And so therefore, she is capable of rape and not capable of raising children- the f***ing end.

[Gregs]

So you think anyone should have that kind of power? That's leading to the kind of country in which men can get arrested for sexual harrasment just by looking at a woman. This is the reason why many good guys are avoiding marriage right now, it's way too risky for guys to be alone with a woman let alone live in the same house and share property rights with her

[Asker]

Your slippery slopes are more slippery than your mothers vagina, seriously.

[Gregs]

wtf are you talking about siko?

[Asker]

Don't you know what slippery sloped are? I'm not surprised.

[Gregs]

your f***ing disgusting. Before if a guy was getting married people would celebrate, now people are starting to look at you like "wtf are you doing moron?". If your happy with the system, the only guys you are going to have left are whipped ladymen that could not create an inch of attraction if their life depended on it, and REAL assholes, eventually there will only be real rape in marriage because all the good guys are not going to want to get married at all

[Asker]

More slippery slopes! You're worse than Harold Camping.

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

When are people going to learn? Republicans are horrible horrible people (the Republican politicians that is). There are a few good ones, but very few. Sure tons of Democrats suck, but there are at least a bit more that are better.

[Asker]

I agree! I juct can't deal with those crazy f***s.

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

lol 2 republicans are mad they can't take the truth their party is full of worse people than the other. Democrats suck too, but Republicans are far worse. F***ing horrible people. Look at how they are trying to kill medicare, kill social security, kill unions, and give more of OUR tax money to the rich. Dumbass people who are blinded to Republican bullsh*t.

[0ddjob]

I wish there was some sort of entry exam you had to pass in order to qualify to run for elective office.

[Asker]

I absolutely agree with that.

[diegoD]

who cares

[beer3]

hahaha, are you sure he didn't mean by having a weapon. Flat tire=Tire iron, Women= mace?

[Asker]

I'm sure to a degree he does believe that as well, which isn't entirely unreasonable. But overall he meant what he said :P

[Dom163]

Maybe he is secretly Jon Kyl and he didn't intend it to be a factual statement

[wilsom]

You shouldn't bother about this. Some politicians haven't even been to school

[Asker]

It's disgusting. Makes me want to pop all of tires and write " YO TIRES JUST GOT RAPED, BITCH" all over his car.so angry :c

[Anonymous]

I didn't read the whole thing nor did I click the links, but I don't get what you so upset about. People should always be cognizant of their surroundings and who they deal with. What's wrong with saying that?

Also, what's with the "men should be taught not to rape" thing? We know its wrong and most will not rape someone. Its a few that do and you can't really stop it. Some guy some where will rape some girl. That's just how it is.

[Asker]

Just because you don't care to fix it doesn't mean it's not a problem.

[Opinion Owner]

Fix what? Rape? I know its a problem, but how do you propose we fix it? Like I said, we are told that rape is wrong. Most of us will not do it.

[Asker]

By educating men on the issue. They do it all over the UK and in parts of south America. And they have lower rapes per capita. There are ways, people are told rape is wrong yet we stand in 9th place for the highest rape rate in the world. It's not okay.

[Opinion Owner]

And, how do they go about that? How can you educate us more? I'm not able to grasp that. Society tells people not to do many things. Since most rapes go unreported, our first step should be encouraging people that have been raped or know someone that has been raped to come forward so we can get those guys into a prison.

[Asker]

School. Teach the young and teach both sexes how to protect themselves and how to avoid raping people. Also teaching the laws of consent. Idk, how it gets any simpler than that.

[Opinion Owner]

Ok maybe I am/was more aware than other guys. That must be why I don't get it.

[Asker]

Thats a possibility. Especially since 1 of every 4 women will be rapes or have someone attempt rape. So, thanks for not raping anyone, even though it's sad as f*** that I've got to be at all thankful.

[Anonymous]

Let me guess...REPUBLICAN.

[Asker]

YUP! <3

[Opinion Owner]

DeGraaf, who is in his first term and who is an associate pastor, also called for banning coverage for abortions of rape pregnancies. (Women could get around this if they purchased separate, "abortion-only policies.") THIS IS THE PROBLEM WHEN RELIGIOUS NUTCASES GET ELECTED. FIRST TIRM WILL BE HIS LAST.

[Asker]

I really hope so, but that he's been elected at all makes me weary.

[Opinion Owner]

I live on the west coast. We don't vote idiots like that into office. Different idiots but just not that type of idiot.