Not Fun Anymore

I need my newspaper fix every morning. My mom nags me about it because there are only 3 of us at home and for one, my mom doesn’t care to read it. She thinks it’s all a waste of good money spending RM1.20 every morning for a daily dosage of baloney. But I just can’t help it, the feeling of there’s something missing or I didn’t remember to do something will haunt me for the rest of the day if I didn’t flip a page or two of The Star. Only The Star will do, by the way. Internet news just don’t cut it, I need to flip the pages. Keyword here being pages.

Recently, there’s this heated debate going on between readers on the ‘Opinions’ section about who’s in the wrong if there happens to be a rape and the victim was found to be dressed provocatively. I usually don’t care but some arguments are getting outrageously dumb. Like, everybody who’s not a rapist would certainly say that the rapist is at wrong, right? Because ‘rape’ is defined as ‘ act of sexual intercourse with an individual without his or her consent, through force or the threat of force.’—Britannnica online.

See? It’s without consent. Meaning, the victim did not say ‘yes, you can rape me’. Like, If I were to grab your sandwich from you, without you agreeing to it, you wouldn’t like it either, would you? Even though I would argue that the sandwich looked very delicious and that I was very hungry, plus the fact that you were holding it too close to me, you WOULD smack me if I dared take a bite without your consent right?

That said, even if the victim is only in thongs and has nothing else on her(I used ‘her’ as an example as opposed to ‘him’ because frankly, it’s kinda hard for men to dress provocative enough for women to rape them; On the other hand, I have no idea why would a self-respecting woman would dress so minimally), the rapist had no right to stalk her and upon reaching a back alley, proceed to ravish her. Right, because she didn’t AGREE to it.

So, I say, the rapist can only be acquitted if ever the victim had ‘rape me’ stickers plastered all over her. Imaginary ones don’t count, though. Or maybe, a ‘Can I rape you?’ would be more orderly. But take note that oral proof is not enough, bring a voice recorder just in case.

All this noise about who started it first is just so pointless, the rapist is obviously at fault. Had he(or she—but really, who would believe you if you stood up and said ‘I was raped by a woman!!’. Other than the you-lucky-bastard nudge in the ribs, expect no sympathy) more self-control, a saner mind and less raging testosterone, there wouldn’t be rape case in the first place. All logical evidence points to the rapist being the guilty one.

But why are there still idiots trying to put the blame on the a woman’s way of dressing?

Their writing shows that they had a certain standard of education, thus implying that they should have certain understanding of right from wrong. However, what they tried to say suggests otherwise. What the hell is going on here? There was even a ‘Ms. Yip’ saying that it’s the woman’s fault she got rape. Hello??? Wither hath thy love for thy sister gone? Jumped-off the building? It seems likely so. Well, of course she didn’t just send in ‘Dear Editor, IT IS THE WOMAN’S FAULT SHE GOT HERSELF RAPED!!—-luv, Ms.Yip’. Yeah, but her whole letter might just as well be only that.

*drama*

Dumbasses.