HERE ENDETH THE LESSON

There was a disturbing poll doing the rounds in Sunday's news - mainly because there is no news on Sunday other than sport.  "Everybody's at home either reading a massive newspaper or trying to plasterboard a ceiling" doesn't make a great headline.  So broadcasters have to go for things that during the week no one would even have the time to consider because they are busy.   On Sunday, people have time to ruminate on things and wind themselves up into a frenzy, so the news media chooses something suitable and runs with it.  This weekend the news consisted mainly of a poll that claimed that just over half the women polled agreed that rape victims "asked for it". 

What sort of a question is that in a modern civilised society?  That certain women deserve to be raped?  That certain men just can't help themselves, they just have to rape women who are drunk or dressed provocatively?  I sometimes think the human race has stopped evolving  and is actually regressing as the functioning parts of their brain shrink until soon all people will be able to do is grunt "more beer" and jab at remote controls with over-sized thumbs.

There have been too many tabloid tales of girls crying wolf, of footballers being lured into "situations".   - By the way, it is not difficult to lure a footballer into a "situation".  Ten pints of lager and the promise of a good time will do the job nicely.  -  The trouble is, a claim of rape is being used more and more by certain women who believe they are not getting their own way - although what they do want I have no idea...  It is time more women went to prison for crying "rape" when it is patently untrue.  Such allegations can destroy a innocent man's life.

Let's get one thing clear here and now:  RAPE VICTIMS NEVER ASK FOR IT.  

IF A MAN CANNOT SHOW SELF-RESTRAINT IT IS HIS PROBLEM, NOT THE PROBLEM OF EVERY WOMAN IN SOCIETY.

Where will we end up?  With all women wearing burqas so that just their eyes are showing?  And still getting raped? (although, granted, it would take a bit longer).   Because rapists rape, that's all they are interested in.  They don't care how a woman is dressed or what she looks like, they are simply looking for an opportunity to get their end away in as violent and aggressive way as possible.

I am not a violent person, but sometimes logic needs to be entered into people's brains the old-fashioned way: a statement repeated over and over while being emphasised with a piece of two by four to the temple...