February 14, 2007 6:38 AM

Another DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener

Petroski the Conqueror

Rape Only Hurts If You Fight It

Connecticut University Op-Ed Piece on Rape Draws Protest

DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener #533: John Petroski

Most people today would claim that rape is a terrible crime almost akin to murder, but I would strongly disagree. Far from a vile act, rape is a magical experience that benefits society as a whole…. If it weren’t for rape, Western civilization might not exist as we know it today. When the Romans were faced with a disproportionate ration of women to men in the early kingdom, they had to do something, lest their fledgling society die for lack of sons. To solve their little dilemma, they did what any reasonable man would do: they threw a festival for their Sabine neighbors, and then stole and raped their women. It’s quite logical; in fact I don’t understand why the settlers at Plymouth didn’t do the same to the local Indians—it certainly would have saved on shipping costs.

I first read this opinion piece thinking that it HAD to be some sort of parody, but if you read some of Petroski’s other trollicious literary stylings, you realize quickly that this DUMB@$$ is serious. Man, this crap is straight out of the “women are property” school of thought. And even if, by some stretch of the imagination, I’ve misread Petroski’s intentions and this piece is in fact a parody, there is NOTHING even remotely funny about it.

Bobby Knight once said that if rape is inevitable, then a woman might as well lay back and enjoy it. This presumes, of course, that you accept the premise that women exist for the sexual gratification of men. If a women isn’t willing…well, an unwilling one will do just fine, eh?

It would be difficult to adequately articulate my disgust with any person who would make light of an act that robs so many women of their innocence and their sense of well-being. Petroski may “glorify” rape, but likely only because no one has bent him over a chair at gunpoint and violated him repeatedly and painfully.

Rape’s glorious adventures are not, however, exclusively found from 2,000 year-old examples. In actuality, rape’s advantages can very much be seen today. Take ugly women, for example. If it weren’t for rape, how would they ever know the joy of intercourse with a man who isn’t drunk?

No woman- indeed, no human being- exists merely for the entertainment and sexual gratification of men. Taking sex from a woman against her will is just plain wrong, no many how many different ways a troll like Petroski might try to convince us otherwise. Sex is something meaningful only when given and shared willingly. Forcibly taking it under any pretext merely makes one a common rapist deserving only of being removed from the fellowship of his fellow man.

Jeebus, how many flavors of DUMB@$$ is this dickweed??

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