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.
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.
When feminists complain about rape they mean a woman who got drunk and fucked a guy who never called her again.
When a white woman is gang-raped into a coma by blacks, feminists are always the first to say she's a lying slut who was asking for it.