Rape victims with their attacker's quotes

[garbon]

They don't retract.

[Eddie Teach]

They don't retract.

Helpful when running down a gazelle.

[Malthus]

They don't retract.

Helpful when running down a gazelle.

I hate to think what that's a euphemism for. 

[Eddie Teach]

It's not a euphemism. Cheetahs have non-retractable claws which help them gain lots of speed and turning ability.

[Valmy]

They're just not as funny as ferry passengers drowning. 

Tuna will never forgive us

[OttoVonBismarck]

If I could say there is anything sad about the internet age it's that I am basically emotionally numb to seeing this stuff through the medium of my PC. That's not the same as being some emotionless robot, but I think the medium impacts (at least for me) how I process something.

If I was at a lecture or some place where a rape victim stood up and spoke about her (or his) experiences, visibly upset perhaps or getting emotional, I would have an emotional response to that.

But just about anything I see on the internet just rolls over me as nothingness. Back when I was say, 20 years old before the web age, if I saw that image in a magazine or something of all the rape victims and their signs that'd probably have an impact. In 2013 here on Languish? Nothing.

I had a similar feeling when I saw a collage of pictures on facebook. It was the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for photography winner, and it was a series of 20 or so images of a mother with her son who was dying of leukemia, ending with her by the son's grave. Seeing it on facebook basically meant, for me at least, it had very little emotional impact. If someone had handed me the pictures in person, it would have been different.

[crazy canuck]

But just about anything I see on the internet just rolls over me as nothingness.

I get what you are saying about the effect of the internet.  But for me, seeing some of those images (particularly the images of the young girls holding the signs and the signs describing how young the victims where when they were abused) was disturbing for me.

[Admiral Yi]

For some reason I can't explain the older lady bothered me the most.

[merithyn]

The last one affected me the most. It's what was said to me 27 years ago.

[Ideologue]

The dude ones are pretty awful too.

On one hand, female-against-male rape does seem "less damaging" (it's [usually] non-forcible; I personally would probably feel less violated than a woman in a reverse situation), but it did make me wonder about the double-bind.  It may not be forcible, but it may as well be--if you use force to resist, odds are you'll be in prison a lot sooner than she will.

The obvious solution to basically all crime is a total surveillance society.

[jimmy olsen]

For some reason I can't explain the older lady bothered me the most.

The threat of murder?

[OttoVonBismarck]

Maybe my heart is turned to stone, but I also can't get past the fact these are user submitted through a tumblr page. That basically to me means that the internet and who it attracts being what it is, I imagine some of these women are not rape victims but just people wanting to be sick weirdos and put their picture into the gallery.

[CountDeMoney]

The last one affected me the most. It's what was said to me 27 years ago.

Well, that's just fucking super.  Now I can't use that line anymore without feeling guilty. 

[CountDeMoney]

Maybe my heart is turned to stone, but I also can't get past the fact these are user submitted through a tumblr page. That basically to me means that the internet and who it attracts being what it is, I imagine some of these women are not rape victims but just people wanting to be sick weirdos and put their picture into the gallery.

So cynical, Otto.  BB and the rest of the Languish Morality Brigade frowns upon you.

[Razgovory]

The last one affected me the most. It's what was said to me 27 years ago.

Well, that's just fucking super.  Now I can't use that line anymore without feeling guilty. 

Well just don't use it on her.