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Jun. 29, 2011 @ 6:30 PM _
By saying “that guy,” you trivialize rape. By saying “that guy,” You show how afaid you are of the word. Rapist.
That guy in which you refer is a rapist. Don’t be a rapist. Every time you slap another one of these ad campaigns against a wall or billboard you help those who view it not connect the dots between non consent and rape.
When I hear the term “that guy” I think of the idiot who mooches off of his friends. I think of the idiot who goes through my fridge and eats half a weeks worth of my TV dinners. I think of the idiot who takes four beers out of my fridge. I think of the idiot who overstays his welcome. When I hear rapist I think of someone who rapes.
By saying ”that guy,” I think of someone who overstays his welcome and mooches. Which, in return comes very close if not hitting a dehumanizing element.
The idea that ”that guy” is mooching off of a girl too drunk to give her consent. A guy who has overstayed his welcome. This is not the case. He is raping her. He is committing a crime. Againt law, against humanity.
Please so everyone a favor. Be bold and strongly type “Don’t be a rapist.”
May. 21, 2011 @ 9:44 AM _
I just read an article about how a rape kit that was submitted two years ago yielded as a result the DNA of a convicted serial killer.
In April 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio a woman submitted a rape kit after being held captive for days, beaten, drugged and raped. She eventually fought her way out of immediate danger and carried herself to a hospital where a rape kit was then collected. EXCEPT the crime lab did not receive this kit from the police.
Now that its been so close to two years the truth is coming out. That kit, which was left untested for so long, harbored the DNA for a serial killer by the name of Anthony Sowell, a former Marine. In his home it was found that he had 11 victims.
Can you imagine what would have happened if that kit had been tested sooner? Perhaps nothing. Perhaps everything. If you look at the dates, it would show that he killed five people after the rape of this woman. That’s five human lives that had the potential to be saved. That’s five families and five networks of friends who could have been spared.
It is not unusual for rape kits to be left untested. According to The Joyful Heart Foundation, a large majority of police jurisdictions do not require the testing of rape kits. That is an estimated hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits sitting in police and crime lab storage facilities throughout the U.S.
Only 6% of rapists spend time in jail. And worse, the majority of rapists are serial rapists.
Send a letter to the International Association of Chiefs of Police urging their members to make testing rape evidence kits a priority.
Click here to email International Association of Chiefs of Police about the importance of rape kit testing.
