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Originally Posted by bermuDa
in the celebrity world, your ability to make stupid comments is directly linked to the amount of airtime you're given.
I'm willing to take a stab at making sense of this dumb woman's words:
Diaz is (i believe) a democrat and pro-choice. Kerry, despite being a devout catholic, is also pro choice. What diaz might have been implying was that if you don't vote, the anti-abortion incumbent would win.
One of the main arguments for abortion is that women shouldn't be forced to carry a child to term that is the result of rape. I can't exactly make the leap to making rape legal, but it's vaguely related... sort of... not really.
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Well, you're close, anyway.
without the benefit of women speaking up in this thread, I'll just have to say this and see if any come along and back up my assertion:
politically in the minority, many women might feel that laws they view as oppressive are akin to rape. Maybe rape has a larger meaning than many of you seem to believe it to be: more than just the physical holding of a woman down and forcing your phallis into her.
Ah yes, there are rapings with objects, rapings with words, and now, it appears at least to Diaz anyway, rapings with laws. There are rapings of land, rapings with eyes, and rapings with meaings and of words.
Sometimes you need to step out of your shocked mentalility to understand someone else's point. But not having to deal with the ever present reality of being raped from all quarters (as some women beleive patriarcal society represents to them), I wouldn't expect many men to do it very often.
cheers and out.