[Vision2020] A Liberal World

[Melynda Huskey]

Mike writes:

>Perhaps this explains why running around with your top off to wash cars is 
>a
>good thing (it goes against all those stodgy conservatives townies) and why
>raping those same topless women is a bad thing (even though the next
>generation of liberals might think that a perfectly good thing).

Here's an explanation that makes sense on *this* planet.  When some local 
women decided to wash cars without shirts on, they were making a completely 
legal decision (at that time, anyway) about *their own bodies.*  If someone 
were to have raped one of those women, he would have been committing an 
illegal act of sexual violence against someone else.  There's no similarity 
between the two situations at all.

I apparently also need to note that not wearing a shirt is not the same 
thing as consenting to sex.

Of course, the unspoken core of Mike's argument (and quite a lot of Joshua's 
too) is that women's bodies, and their sexuality, must be concealed because 
men can't possibly  control themselves.  What a demeaning and horrific 
vision of both men and women.

Melynda Huskey

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