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Comment author: NihilCredo 26 January 2012 03:09:38PM 9 points [-]

butthurt

Expressing a controversial opinion doesn't condone being immature or disrespectful.

Beyond that, I have two questions for you:

1) How much confidence do you place in your statement on the impact of female rape in first-world countries?

2) If the answer to (1) is greater than "very little", on what sort of direct or indirect knowledge of the phenomenon do you base this confidence?

Comment author: [deleted] 26 January 2012 07:07:25PM 1 point [-]

butthurt

U mad?

More seriously, you're right, I could have used a better word.

How much confidence do you place in your statement on the impact of female rape in first-world countries?

Which statement?

Comment author: NihilCredo 26 January 2012 07:21:03PM 0 points [-]

Which statement?

Most of the impact of rape is a made-up self fulfilling prophesy.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 January 2012 07:44:33PM 5 points [-]

how much confidence

Lower than it was when I posted it, but it seems plausible enough to be worth discussing.

I would now dispute the use of 'most'.

what evidence

observations of cultural memes, seeing how people talk about it with victims, seeing how role models talk about it, and observations of people dealing with similar but unrelated pressures.

All of this is very easily screened off by closer evidence, I would like to see some more solid studies or more stories at least.