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Rape: the unlawful compelling of a women through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse: any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.

rape. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved June 24, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rape

In Kansas a victim was ordered during trial to avoid the use of terms such as “rape”, “victim”, “assailant”, and even “sexual assault”. Apparently this is a possible  new trend in these types of trials:

“It’s a topic that’s coming up more and more,” said Joshua Marquis, an Oregon prosecutor and a vice president of the National District Attorneys Association. “You’re moving away from what a criminal trial is really about.”

Precisely, and as per the actual victim in the trial…

“It shouldn’t be up to a judge to tell me whether or not I was raped,” Bowen said. “I should be able to tell the jury in my own words what happened to me.”

Exactly. It’s one thing to be concerned with “innocent until proven guilty”, but where do we draw the line with “given exception until proven guilty?”

Maybe Kansas is more backward than I previously judged.

Make sure you’re ready to take the phrase “I don’t want to” out of your vernacular according to Phyllis Schlafly.

According to the “home-making”-psuedo-politician, women having happily participated in nuptial vows can not, by the very nature of the contract, be sexually assaulted by their husbands.

By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don’t think you can call it rape.

Really? I suppose we should go one step further and theorize that when you get married it’s not up to you anymore whether you have kids or not as well.

The logic behind this astounds me. Not to mention the inner hackles that get upset when reminded that there really are people out there fighting for ideas like this.

I especially enjoy her ‘educated opinion’ on women with both children and a career…”While Schlafly said she has no problem with women raising a family and pursuing a professional career, she said they can’t be done at the same time.”

I wonder what her family thinks about all the idealist traveling she does for her ’career’? 
 

But I will do so here. Prior to today I had never attended a caucus. I label it as embarrasing because I feel that anyone that actually cares should be at them. I like to think of myself as someone who cares…and have for a while, so it’s silly that I had yet to attend one. I had planned to be at this one for sure.

Unfortunately, it seemed that Obama was overwhelmingly favored in my immediate district (well, and apparently he’s generally favored in the entire state). And no, I’m not just voting for her because she’s a woman. Obama is a powerful speaker…he gets to people, and people respond to that. But between the two of them, she has more experience, she already knows from inside out how D.C. works.

What I actually enjoyed the most about it, is that I sat there with my neighbors that were all within a few blocks of me, talking about all this. I’m part of a community, and today I got to interact with the community members that actually care. Not to mention, I met the neighbors that live in the house right in front of me. One of them was chosen by us for a delegate to go on. And I’m pretty sure that I’m going to go along for the ride with them just to see what happens. (I offered to be a delegate but we could only choose one-we were the minority in our district-and she was way more experienced so I deferred to her).

I had a really good time today.   

Rape is not funny. I am an intelligent individual. I know what ‘opinion’ and ‘fact’ are defined as. In this case, definitions be damned…rape is not funny in any capacity, in any situation, nor in any circumstance. If you do think it’s funny something is severely wrong with you and were you in my office I would provide you with a mental health referral immediately. Oh and by the way…if you think rape is funny and also think it’s okay to laugh about it publicly you shouldn’t be on the air-I don’t care if it is unregulated XM radio.

These two assholes would obviously disagree with me. (If you are sensitive to vulgarity & language-probably better that you don’t take a listen to the second link).

My favorite part about all of this are the idiots that defend it and turn it into a ‘censorship’ issue. Really?!? Are you sure about that? Glances at message boards that are supporting Opie & Anthony reveal that many are asking that an apology be issued to the two for the 30-day suspension of their show. An apology? They should have been dropped all together-immediately.

Violent acts against women, or anyone for that matter…are just not funny-and consequences for mocking them are really not a censorship issue.