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JTFrog

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12. I'm sure you know who else out there in the "real world" is heavily invested
Sat Feb 15, 2014, 06:35 PM
Feb 2014

in trying to minimize and redefine rape. We saw some amazingly dense politicians come out and say the damnedest things about rape last year. Rape is rape. Statutory rape is rape. Violent rape is rape. Date rape is rape. Drunk rape is rape. That's the REAL WORLD. And even though there are REAL LAWS that define all of those things as rape, rapists often go unpunished. Trying to change the definition or degree of rape is definitely not going to help victims of rape who already face an uphill battle in seeing the perpetrator brought to justice. It just ends up causing trauma on top of trauma.

Object away, just know that your objections mean absolutely squat to me after reading your "thoughts" on this subject.

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