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As most of you may have heard, Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991, when she was just 11 years old.
The details of the crime are so intense, so gruesome, so disgusting and malicious, that I will not go into extreme detail. I will tell you this though: there is a facebook group, Jaycee Lee Dugard - she had it coming, that is calling the victim a liar and "a slut".
One of the many comments on the group wall is: "I've been watching the news reposts and it seems Jaycee wasn't so innocent after all. She let that pig Garrido rape her small children every weekend. Only in American eh ?"
Where do I begin? First off, the fact that anybody with working organs and a normal blood flow can somehow justify rape and child molestation is despicable and that language should be damn right illegal. I don't care how much I advocate for free speech. I do not want to hear a empty minded poor excuse for a human being talk about how "stupid and slutty" rape victims must be for "letting" a man rape them. The ignorance behind such statements are sexist--both anti-woman and more generally, anti-human.
Secondly, a man on this group--Prince Azazel Lives--claimed that Jaycee Dugard "wanted it and she loved it!"
While the possibility that this hate-preaching mongrel could in fact be a poser, it is still news worthy. I have heard plenty arguments in support of rape; one such person might argue that a woman scantily dressed is asking to be raped. Those who formulate these poor arguments should fall off the face of this earth.
I'm sorry that I can't make a real case dealing with this facebook group. It's just that there are SO MANY cases to be made regarding this group.
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Mmm thats pretty horrible. I too hate the victim blaming. I had written earlier this month about a 8 year old Liberian girl whose mother and sister were blaming her for the gang rape she experienced. I think this is really upsetting and I hope that the more we spread awareness like you are doing now that this is not ok the further we will get towards progress.
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vanessaaishacoleman
| 9/3/09 08:33 PM
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vanessaaishacoleman
| 9/3/09 08:33 PM
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That is so sick. Misogyny is disgusting. Thank you for writing about this and for exposing this.
# Posted By Mahayana
| 9/3/09 09:25 PM
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