BTW, it's interesting to note that Jacinta uses the less divisive term 'sexual assault' in most of her mail.
To be clear I think in the thread cited that Jacinta's entirely correct and Ted's post doesn't seem to contribute much of use and really just muddies the waters. I don't agree with other commenters that Ted was trying to make some kind of point about the types of rape 'likely to occur' at conferences, he doesn't say anything like that, he just takes issue with some numbers. But I just think the topic of what is and isn't rape is an area of very thin ice indeed and I'm not sure it's correct or helpful to say that Ted's mail constitutes 'rape denial'.
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Re: What a horrible approach to this discussion!
Date: 2012-10-30 01:43 am (UTC)To be clear I think in the thread cited that Jacinta's entirely correct and Ted's post doesn't seem to contribute much of use and really just muddies the waters. I don't agree with other commenters that Ted was trying to make some kind of point about the types of rape 'likely to occur' at conferences, he doesn't say anything like that, he just takes issue with some numbers. But I just think the topic of what is and isn't rape is an area of very thin ice indeed and I'm not sure it's correct or helpful to say that Ted's mail constitutes 'rape denial'.