i am mentally divergent

dullscythe replied to your post: I’m seriously stunned right now. Someone in my…

It’s interesting (and inane) that they can only see rape as an act of lust/sex/desire, which means they see it only from the point of view of the victimizer. The victim, of course, sees it as an act of violence, disrespect, and hate. Empathy failure.

The saddest thing to me is that this was on the context of reading Hodge’s book Gendered Hate. Her whole first chapter is how ALL crimes against women with male perpetrators are hate crimes, from date rape to domestic violence to murder. She spends TWENTY TWO PAGES discussing what a hate crime is and why violence against women is a hate crime. Like I can’t believe this woman read all of that and still was like well, this kind of rape isn’t a hate crime. Like as a woman, how can you sympathize with the victimizer? She is just that socialized to it, it seems. She can’t get over it.

Part of me just really feels sorry for her. I don’t feel comfortable posting her response to the question but I really wish I could. I’m not exaggerating here. 

 sidewalksecrets replied to your post: I’m seriously stunned right now. Someone in my…

Who can be that heartless and naive?!

She is an undergrad but she is also a Criminal Justice major. I find it unbelievable that either she hasn’t encountered this before or someone hasn’t said SOMETHING to her about it. I wish my professor was more proactive and would actually step in to say something to her. She has been posting things like this for the past three discussions we’ve had. It was too much for me today. 

 footagenotfound replied to your post: I’m seriously stunned right now. Someone in my…

How did someone with an IQ of 5 get into that program?

You know how every state has that one state school where all you need to do is sign a check and you get in? That is what this school feels like to me. I mean when I applied for grad school, they took a copy of my GRE that was like 7-8 years old. A photocopy no less. With those rigorous standards for grad school, I only imagine what the undergraduate program is like.