subject: When women deserve rape ... and other inane law of attraction thoughts [print this page] When women deserve rape ..When women deserve rape ... and other inane law of attraction thoughts
Violence against women happens because there is a cluster of so-called "thinkers" out there who believe that women are inferior, objects to be owned and controlled.
According to the extremist Law of Attraction advocate, a woman gets raped because there is something innately within her that desires to get raped.
Some might soften the blow a little, and say (as they do about violent acts against children) that the thoughts that the child/woman wasemanatingto the universe was of smaller significance than that of the perp. (Other's might blame it on the mother's inability to protect the child because her thoughts are all wrong.)
When did out thinking get so screwed up??
As a feminist years back, I jumped on the bandwagaon that made violence against [women] a woman's issue. We'd build our little victim recovery centres and pat each other's hands and say there there dear, it's all over now but tell me again about your pain. You need to let it go, little sister.
As a feminist today, I am jumping on a different bandwagon that is making violence against women a man's issue. No more hand-holding, just a straight-up acknowledgement that, yes, you've been physically assaulted, but honey, you will heal; the person who's psychologically bent is the frigger who did this to you. Now there's one soul who seriously and immediately needs a good therapist.
Interestingly, I'm not alone. There are other groups out there who advocate it. Other men's groups. Watch Tony Porter, a speaker at a TED-Women event. Here what "vibes" this guy is putting out into the universe.
Now, here's the interesting question (or more accurately series of questions) that I'll put out there to the LOA extremists who dare to read this blog (and other's like it): If we can agree that the bulk of all men are not rapists (even though the bulk of all women experience sexual interruption), why is it that rape still happens in epidemic proportions? Whose thoughts are manifesting it? Are the women manifesting it? Or are womanly vibes not "strong" enough for the universe to register, and it's actually the men's thinking that brings it about? Can we say that when rape is used as a very specific war tactic (as it was in Bosnia), that when rape is conceived by men as a strategy, that the women have caused it to happen specifically to them? to her? to that one?
If there are men out there like Tony Porter who advocate that men step up to the thinking part of their brain, and women like me out there who subscribe to the belief that violence is a man's issue (not a woman's), why in the hell aren't our thoughts significant enough to change the way things are?
