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Originally Posted by DoctorZangief
Lapka,
You're a time capsule from the soviet union. In the real western world your "practical" advice is generally called victim blaming. When we hear about women getting sexually assaulted our response is generally outrage. The soviet response is more akin to "well yeah, there's always going to be a certain percentage of sexual assault at slutty clubs. Don't go to those." We get it but it's still kind of dumb. White people strive for the ideal, Soviet people shrug and assume nothing can change.
I am all for change of many things. But the way to do it is not to say that people shouldn't behave badly, so I will go out and no one will be mean to me, assault me and everything is gonna be all right. The way of change is too seek dialog where there is no acute stress situation, no one feels violated and everyone is in the more or less calm waters.
If I would be Jo, I would totally get pretty active in LGBT.
And my views are strongly influenced by my everyday life. Sexual assault is present and I can either be a victim or deal with it wisely: Not enter situations where it can get out of hand, keep control, signal absolutely unambiguous and early when I don't like the advances, having zero hesitations to kick in the balls and go absolutely all-in when a guy doesn't understand "no". Just having this attitude is immensely helpful. I can't remember last time things got so out of hand that it would seriously upset me.
Last edited by anonla; 09-25-2018 at 10:56 AM.