Rape is evil, and it is a bit reductive to say it's "a single, brief event, possibly only lasting minutes", since trauma is legitimately a thing and people process that differently.
But that goes hand in hand with the alternative posed here. It's traumatic to be betrayed, harmed and taken advantage of. It's also traumatic to be abandoned by the supposed justice systems that are meant to protect the innocent.
And I think this is the issue people have here. They are so used to and ingrained with the idea of Good vs Evil, that any supposed lesser evil is somehow a statement that it's actually not evil at all and is actually good. And that's simply not true. These are two very clear evils, and some people cannot process the idea that saying "this one does more harm" is not a statement in defence of the other.
Binary thinking and false dichotomies have been a disaster for people who think themselves smart but only ever repeat the status quo.
It's funny. These people will hem and haw about how everything is a shade of gray and nobody is really good or evil until someone allegedly does something that they don't like. Then suddenly they have moral standards again. Go figure.
Rape is evil, and it is a bit reductive to say it's "a single, brief event, possibly only lasting minutes", since trauma is legitimately a thing and people process that differently.
But that goes hand in hand with the alternative posed here. It's traumatic to be betrayed, harmed and taken advantage of. It's also traumatic to be abandoned by the supposed justice systems that are meant to protect the innocent.
And I think this is the issue people have here. They are so used to and ingrained with the idea of Good vs Evil, that any supposed lesser evil is somehow a statement that it's actually not evil at all and is actually good. And that's simply not true. These are two very clear evils, and some people cannot process the idea that saying "this one does more harm" is not a statement in defence of the other.
Binary thinking and false dichotomies have been a disaster for people who think themselves smart but only ever repeat the status quo.
It's funny. These people will hem and haw about how everything is a shade of gray and nobody is really good or evil until someone allegedly does something that they don't like. Then suddenly they have moral standards again. Go figure.
Standards for thee, not for me.
Well it's a problematic topic because you can't force empathatic-behavior by subjecting them to it.
If girls could accuse other girls of rape as easily they can guys, this narrative would never get off the ground.