Is rape a worse crime than permanently injuring a guy by kicking him because rape is a crime against a woman?
March 62010
I think both are just as bad.
You can permanently injure someone by raping them, or kicking them.
It also causes emotional damage. I know some guys who are kinda scared of approaching girls because of it.
I knew a guy who was 14 and was gang-raped by three 17 year old girls and he told me it wasn’t that much of a traumatic experience. He said he’d rather be raped than kicked.
Why is rape so much worse? If a guy asked how he hard he’d have to beat up or rape a woman he’d be reported immediately and everyone would tell him off.
I would have to know if punching a woman specifically and purposely in her boob would be considered assault or sexual assault, to answer this question.
I would think that these two situations I listed above, would need to coincide with one another.
Edit: mathewssh: Fair enough…. I guess it would be more appropriate to know whether punching a woman in her pelvic area hard enough to destroy her reproductive system would be considered assault or sexual assault (if it was directly hit in that area purposely)? I would consider these situations to coincide with one another.
No doubt that it should be some form of assault, but to which kind of assault is the question.
Edit(2): Okay, after looking into it more… According to Mississippi State University, hitting boys/men in the balls is considered sexual assault(by definition). http://msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu/crime/assault.htm (see section titled: What constitutes sexual assault?)
It’s really hard to find the true definitions, because all the sites help women, instead of the men who have been a victim of sexual assault.
I wouldn’t use the word rape or comparisons, as sexual assault is more appropriate.
March 6th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Men get raped, too, sweetie. It’s an invasion of a very special part of the body that we usually reserve for someone we care for very much. One needs to learn to use caution when approaching anyone they don’t know. That’s just a fact of life. I wish it weren’t so, but it is. Hurting anyone is just plain wrong. Unfortunately we live in a more violent society than we used to.Maybe your friend didn’t want to report the girls.
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March 6th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
you are right both are BAD… for example some guy just killed a person then the other is a shop lifter you can’t say that killing is worse than stealing because both are still wrong but sometimes it also depends on how they did it…!(^_^)!
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March 6th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
First off, the rape of a woman by a man is far worse than the rape of a man by a woman. When a man rapes a woman, he invades her body forcefully (even if sex is consentual, the woman is still sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes even in pain). It is far more painful to force a phallus into an orifice than it is to force the orifice on the phallus. That is why women are in more pain than men when they lose their virginity.
Second of all, rape is always worse than kicking a guy in the balls. There is a difference between harming someone internally and harming them externally. So what if it prevents the guy from having kids? That’s what adoption is for. But if a woman is raped, not only does she experience tearing, bruising, and emotional scarring, she also has to face the prospect of pregnancy.
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March 6th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Seriously? Are you for real?
Kicking a guy is not the same as raping a man or woman. If you kick a guy, he’s in pain for awhile. If you hit a woman, she’s in pain for awhile. They physically suffer. There’s a psychological component that goes along with it (of varying intensities depending on the relationship). If you rape someone, that has a much more lasting impact.
Rape is not something to take lightly. Also, to insinuate that rape is only a crime against women is truly awful and harmful to the numerous men who are raped and suffer as a result.
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March 6th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
C’mon guys, your point is valid but your example is not.
Kicking a guy in the groin = raping a woman?
While I am in agreement that bagging a guy is a sexual violation as well as an agressive one, I am concerned by the way you dismiss rape as not a big deal. I hope that your attitude is for the good of the argument and not really your opinion.
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March 7th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Well, let me ask you this: would you rather I 1) kicked you in the nuts or 2) forced myself on top of you, stuffing my penis in your unlubricated anus?
(I won’t even bring semen and the possibility of pregnancy into the equation.)
I think perhaps you ought to think a little harder about an issue like rape before you bring it up so lightly again. Rape has harmed the lives of billions of women (and a fair share of men) and should not be ignored or marginalized.
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March 7th, 2010 at 12:51 am
What most people do not realise when thinking of testicles, is they ARE internal organs that HAVE to be external due to heat/cold fluctuations. So although by practical accounts it is an external attack, it’s impact is the same as attacking an internal organ – because they ARE internal organs. If heat were not an issue (and did not kill sperm), then they would be tucked up nicely out of the way where no harm could come to them by such an attack.
So yes, I too agree – to attack a man sexually is akin to rape of a woman. Additionally, she should be charged accordingly.
ETA: Kendrick feminists have been telling we menfolk for a very long time that breasts are NOT sexual organs… so, and she could still perform all sexual functions *if* her breasts somehow got damaged.
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March 7th, 2010 at 1:03 am
They are both horrible. Do you really think we would be more sympathetic to the woman because she IS a woman?
Other women who were raped may identify with her easier…but that does not make one "better" than the other….
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March 7th, 2010 at 1:11 am
I would have to know if punching a woman specifically and purposely in her boob would be considered assault or sexual assault, to answer this question.
I would think that these two situations I listed above, would need to coincide with one another.
Edit: mathewssh: Fair enough…. I guess it would be more appropriate to know whether punching a woman in her pelvic area hard enough to destroy her reproductive system would be considered assault or sexual assault (if it was directly hit in that area purposely)? I would consider these situations to coincide with one another.
No doubt that it should be some form of assault, but to which kind of assault is the question.
Edit(2): Okay, after looking into it more… According to Mississippi State University, hitting boys/men in the balls is considered sexual assault(by definition). http://msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu/crime/assault.htm (see section titled: What constitutes sexual assault?)
It’s really hard to find the true definitions, because all the sites help women, instead of the men who have been a victim of sexual assault.
I wouldn’t use the word rape or comparisons, as sexual assault is more appropriate.
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March 7th, 2010 at 1:36 am
Both are as bad as each other. Rape, kicking a man in the b—-, punching a woman in the t—, all can cause permanent emotional and/or physical injury and are tpo be abhored
postscript – Kendrick – physical assault (or as we say in Brit, battery) is assault is assault however you classify it legally
@y’all – to any man or woman here who has been actually been raped my deepest sympathies. It must be a horrible experience to happen but please do not lose faith in your fellow human beings because of it.
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March 7th, 2010 at 2:13 am
Kicking a man "there" is very wrong, unless you are being attacked (then it’s self-defense), but it does not equal the trauma, mental and physical pain of rape.
For the comparison to work, you have to imagine being raped by a man, penetrated just as woman would be. Then decide whether or not you think being kicked is worse.
Let me go on the record as saying that I would MUCH rather be kicked in the groin (which can be very, VERY painful for females, as I found out when I fell on my brother’s bike once) than raped…there is absolutely no comparison
EDIT–kELLY-I’m sure it hurts..that’s not the point. I’m sure that MOST men who have been raped AND kicked in the groin would choose to be kicked in the groin again (if they had to choose)…just a hunch I have.
And you don’t know me, so please don’t assume you know how empathetic I am.
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March 7th, 2010 at 2:37 am
Both are equally heinous, and should be punished severely. This is assuming, of course, that there is no self-defense involved. Like that girl in England who kicked her mom’s friend in the balls so hard that he had to go to the hospital. She didn’t like the fact that he was from New Zealand and pronounced her name wrong.
Rape of a man is every bit as bad as rape of a woman. It is a violation physically, mentally, and emotionally, and traumatizes the victim. To say that one is worse than the other is to say that one gender deserved it more. And that’s just wrong.
I don’t know what to say about the 14 year old raped by the 17 year olds. Maybe it was less painful than a kick to the groin?
I’ve experienced both, myself, and I’d say the rapes were worse. But then again, I’m a girl. A kick to my groin hurts, but it doesn’t drop me. I still actually laugh about that experience, because the boy who kicked me really wanted to hurt me, and he must have been so surprised when I just ran home!
@Wendy: For the comparison to work the other way, you have to imagine what it is like to be kicked in the groin, as a man. If you want empathy, you have to be willing to give it.
@Chani: You scare the hell out of me. God help the man who pisses you off.
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March 7th, 2010 at 3:07 am
Hello, Both are an act of mans inhumanity to man or women. Whatever the out come both leave scars for life, GBH can leave damage, as rape is also a traumatic violation of body and mind. Rape is the most serious.
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March 7th, 2010 at 3:13 am
i think that rape no matter if it is done to a female or happens to be done to a male is worse and cause it causes so much emotional damage more than physical and that is what makes it so bad. like with Special Victims Units cops they always try to comfort the person emotionally more than physically cause they know it is such a traumatic experience and are trained to do it that way.
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