[Janeytwo]

Hey All!

Reminder to self: Sitting down on a vinyl office chair after exercising tends to make one stick to the seat! Ick!! Good grief!!


Dickons

Just pretend and it will be okay? ......sounds like the cold war era when all must pretend to be perfect nuclear family and skeletons are hid in the closet......Sad, just sad...

You got that right my friend!! Maybe back then people could claim to be naive but in this day and age with all we've learned about ourselves? IMO - by now you'd think people would've learned that those skeletons couldn't stay in the closet if you chained them in there. I have to wonder about people who would like to go back to the "good old days"...I have to wonder what it is they're hiding, ya know?


JustPeachy

And what about all the concern for guys who are no longer virgins?? Why isn't he trying to protect THEIR virginity???

Excellent point!! It's strange how people tend to forget that men can be victims too

I haven't pretended to be a virgin since I was a teenager and worried that if I said I already did it, the guy I was with would think I was too easy!! LOL!!!! (I didn't fool him, anyway).

Great minds think alike! I had actually been thinking that very thing as I was watching the speech.

This is rediculous on so many levels really isn't it? Lie and be respectable again. Okay but what about my self-respect? What about my ability to look myself in the face in the mirror every morning? What about that?


Dpen6

I am thinking that men may be able to relate to rape a little better if they invision a huge gay man raping them.....I said that to one of my hubby's friends as he was trying to minimize the effect of rape on a woman and it stopped him cold.

The audience appeared to be mixed in age and sex (in answer to your question).

But - IMO - this is a valid point here. Some people do see rape differently; see it as a crime of passion instead of what it is. A violent act - period, end of sentence.

I'm no expert but I'm fairly certain that no one is going to say to a mugging victim who's just been beaten half to death, "Take back your power! Say it never happened!"

If anyone said that to them their attorney would be screaming, LAW SUIT, from the highest belltower. And rightly so.


MamaS

The purpose is to surgically "rebuild" a hymen so on your wedding night your husband will have "proof" of your virginity.

I don't know what else to say but...Ugh!!! A man who would request that of his fiance? I'd be like "right after you surgically rebuild your lack of self-esteem there buddy"!!


Amanda It may have been a religious show. I'm not sure but that could be. In a way though that would be the worst place to air something like that. Because it seems to me (my opinion only) that perpetrating lies against ourselves would be the last thing God would want us to do. I would think He would want us to live in the light of self acceptance.


Maggie Thanks for posting bud!