thread: 2005-05-16 : Violence
On 2005-05-17, jrs wrote:
Vincent, I do not know. I'm not especially informed, I've not been raped; maybe I shouldn't be posting a response. I do know that women are instructed to survive rape. Is the "accept it until it's over" that I know can happen during rape considered to be the nonviolent response to rape? How might it be different than the nonviolent response to a weapon attack? (What is the nonviolent response to actual bodily harm?) Could I easily distinguish between the penetration of a rapist and that of a weapon? If a rapist thinks so little of me that he could overpower me that way, what stops him from killing me? At what point does it change from surviving rape to merely surviving? What is the difference between surviving in body and surviving in spirit?
I can only respond in questions which is more the indicator that I do not know.
