Why do people rape?

I am probably the only one here who is more than a little angry that it took a "media" production to enlighten Panetta.... as if he had no clue until now.

This is about a public relation reaction to what will no doubt be a widely circulated expose of exactly what Panetta and his ilk have known for decades.

The reaction will be driven by political expedience... because that has become more powerful than any sense of honor and justice.

If you believe in honor, if you strive for justice... rape is never an "option" regardless of how young and horny you may be.

And neither is a culture which "creates a sense of circumstantially malleable criminal code" in regards to the dehumanizing nature of sexual assault.

But rape isn't the issue here for me... it's the fact that a bunch of Hollywood clowns are marketing this to us as if "no one knew." And the political regime is using this...

So I unfortunately must sadly agree with the poster that says women should not serve in the army
That does NOT mean that they can't, they should be allowed

But every man should hope that they don't

I can understand the need for equality, absolutely
But I think they are more equal to each other while holding a gun
What about when you come to hand to hand combat?
Sure many women could kick many men's arses, but let's not lie and consider them equal
Men have more muscle and strenght than women
lung capacity is also required for flying a fighter jet and men have more lung capacity than women which of course varies by height of the individual.

I don't want to turn this into a PC thread
I'm just speaking as a husband and a son
I would rather go to war than my wife and would rather my father or me to go war instead of my mother

I say this because I put women on a pedestal, they are way higher than us
Hopefully I didn't offend anyone by this

I remember being at a corner store one night and everyone in the store heard gunshots, this was in NY at a late night.
A woman asked me "Would you be so kind to walk a lady to her car?", another woman heard her and asked me for the same respect.
Of course I did it gladly.

And of course you would never hear a man asking a woman to walk him to his car

I'm just saying man, that's all

There's an old saying during a fire or small evacuation "Women and children first"

Using prosecution rates as a measure of people "getting away" with crimes is ridiculous.

It requires one hold the assumption that all defendants are guilty.

Not to mention that all prosecutions are inherently righteous.

Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Using prosecution rates as a measure of people "getting away" with crimes is ridiculous.

It requires one hold the assumption that all defendants are guilty.

But that's how the legal system works
The number of people saying that this one guy is guilty WILL make him guilty in a court of law
And the number of women saying the process is almost deliberately flawed makes it flawed

I think people are getting lost in the midst of PCness