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Rape The Gay Away

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JOHANNESBURG: A 13-year-old girl has become the latest victim of ''corrective rape'' as the trend of violent attacks on lesbians shows no signs of letting up.

''The government condemns this senseless and cowardly act of criminality,'' a department of justice spokesman, Tlali Tlali, said in a statement.

''Gay and lesbian rights are human and constitutional rights which must be protected and respected at all times,'' he said, promising a police investigation and assistance to the girl and her family.
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The latest victim was said to have been open about her sexuality and was raped on Thursday in Pretoria, presumably as an act of ''corrective rape'' - so called, when men rape a woman to try to ''fix'' her homosexual orientation.
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http://www.smh.com.au/world/girl-13...ix-lesbians-20110508-1ee8q.html#ixzz1Lx4kzQrL

No mention in the article on whether the treatment was successful or not...
 
''Gay and lesbian rights are human and constitutional rights which must be protected and respected at all times,'' he said, promising a police investigation and assistance to the girl and her family.
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See, they're already heading in the wrong direction by implying that the girl's sexual orientation makes this a 'special' case different from other rapes. Rape is rape, the victim's orientation isn't a mitigating circumstance.
 
Checkmite said:
See, they're already heading in the wrong direction by implying that the girl's sexual orientation makes this a 'special' case different from other rapes. Rape is rape, the victim's orientation isn't a mitigating circumstance.
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I didn't read it that way. I see the which referring to "human and constitutional rights."

"Gay and lesbian rights are human and constitutional rights. Human and constitutional rights must be protected and respected at all times."
 
I'm sure that treatment made her love men now, all right.
 
Checkmite said:
See, they're already heading in the wrong direction by implying that the girl's sexual orientation makes this a 'special' case different from other rapes. Rape is rape, the victim's orientation isn't a mitigating circumstance.
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Except that if she was raped because of her sexual orientation, then the crime is different from another rape. Why? Because the underlying cause of the problem is different. If I burn down your house because I like lighting fires, that's one thing, if I burn down your house because you refused to pay extortion money, that's an entirely different problem, with different solutions.

Treating one type of problem as though it were the same as another is a recipe for failure.
 
Checkmite said:
See, they're already heading in the wrong direction by implying that the girl's sexual orientation makes this a 'special' case different from other rapes. Rape is rape, the victim's orientation isn't a mitigating circumstance.
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I got the opposite vibe, that this kind of rape needs special attention and that it's especially heinous because the thinking behind it is so ignorant.
 
(Scratches head)

All moral issues aside, isn't raping someone just about the worst possible way to make her want to have sex with men?
 
Skeptic said:
(Scratches head)

All moral issues aside, isn't raping someone just about the worst possible way to make her want to have sex with men?
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Very small-minded people think (using the term loosely) that everyone else wants and enjoys the same things they do. They like straight sex, so everyone must, and if this girl doesn't, then she just hasn't tried it. They "think" that once she tries it, she'll realize how awesome it is and never want gay sex again. Even if "trying it" involves brutal violence.

Now to be insensitive- does anyone else have the Fraggle Rock theme song stuck in their head, with the words changed to "Rape the gay away (clap clap), condoms for another day-ay-ay...."?
 
Mycroft said:
I got the opposite vibe, that this kind of rape needs special attention and that it's especially heinous because the thinking behind it is so ignorant.
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I agree. It's similar to the way genocide is even more repugnant than non-genocidal mass murder. The ideas behind it are sinister enough to put it in an even lower category.
 
Corrective rape is a fake issue in the first place, their excuses wouldn't be relevant even if I believed them, which I don't.
 
I suppose you're already trying to justify raping a young girl, so why bother with an excuse that's remotely plausible?

Kinda like trying to come up with a scientific-sounding explanation for why you're diluting your calcium in fifty eight thousand litres of water.
 
svenax said:
Sure, sure. Maybe you meant to say Welcome to the Republic of South Africa.
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Or Congo:

The New York Times said:
A new study in The American Journal of Public Health, expected to be published Thursday online, estimates that nearly two million women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with women victimized at a rate of nearly one every minute.
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Linky:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/world/africa/12congo.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
 
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