Having encountered a woman who suffered rape I realized this was something I knew nothing about. As a male raised in a pre-60s atmosphere where respect for women was still taught to boys by parents - not by absent parents allowing Emenim to do the teaching - rape was too foreign for me to comprehend. In addition the advantages ambulance-chasing lawyers and fanatic feminists have taken by inventing rape victims made me suspicious of some claims made, including the now infamous assertion that all human males are born rapists and murderers. This author defines even "undress you looks" and catcalls as "small rapes". Thus not only reducing those who have been truly raped, but losing credibility by such ridiculous claims. Are we to believe that 1 in 4 women will be raped? Naturally, if definitions become as flimsy as those purported in this book then anything is rape so numbers become stratospheric. How can we know? By the time the author has made this reference the critical reader is long pondering agendas.
Human males are not generally born evil, but some become that way. By the numbers such males are fabulously rare, but they exist and perhaps more than most suspect. Like a single CFC responsible for the destruction of countless ozone molecules, a single rapist can cause irreconcilable damage to many and, as this book clarifies, to more than the rape victim. Which is not to take priority from the one most in need of assistance. That assistance comes in two forms - understanding and justice. The text goes some distance in directing how to assist understanding and warns about the typical response - "it's the victims fault". She is right about rape myths maintaining views of social order. Humans embrace what makes us comfortable, regardless of truth. It's clear to anyone with a brain that rape is not a crime of passion but rather one of violence and the author makes this clear for those who don't already know it.
This book shows the rest of us what rape is like from numerous examples of modern women facing Medieval minds on the matter, painting the event on the inside of our skull. Once done, anger clouds our view but the author does, finally, keep us on track to recovery and not for us but for the survivor. Despite indicting males through sweeping generalizations this book is likely to assist those in need, hopefully without additional damage by the author's personal axe to grind.
One day, when America becomes wise enough to intelligently combat evil at home, not simply abroad, one hopes this evil will undergo its own campaign of eradication. Violent boys, inadequate and inferior, may need counseling but they respond to threats from their own quiver. The threat of certain execution through lethal injection for rapes with DNA evidence, proven in a court of law might go far in containing homeland terrorists and remove parasites less than animals from society.