Myths about sexual assault:

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Myths about sexual assault — “rape myths”

This page contains an evolving collection of prominent myths about sexual assault. Challenging myths about rape and sexual assault is one way to disrupt rape culture. Please feel free to use the comments to add additional myths and facts about rape that you know of if they are not yet included in this collection.

Myths about sexual assault:

MYTH:Most sexual assaults are committed by strangers. FACT: Seven in 10 sexual assaults are by someone the victim knows.

MYTH: Physical evidence never lies or misleads. FACT: Physical evidence may link a person to another but contact may have happened some time ago, and it does not explain the nature of the contact.

MYTH: Because a case was unfounded, it means the incident didn’t happen. FACT: A sexual-assault report can be determined to be false only when the evidence establishes no crime was committed. Only 2 percent to 4 percent of rape reports are false.

MYTH: What’s said by attorneys in court must be true. FACT: Defense attorneys can raise the possibility of an alternate scenario that has no basis in fact.

MYTH: Men always get sexual gratification from raping. FACT: Men committing sexual assaults may not get erections or ejaculate.

MYTH: A woman who was drunk or dressed provocatively was “asking for it, or reports of so-called “marital rape” or “date rape” are less credible or serious. FACT: Rape is rape. It is always illegal.

MYTH: If details of a story are changed, or someone waits to report a rape, it means the person lied about having been raped. FACT: Very few sexual-assault victims report the incident immediately, and details usually do get changed in the repeated telling.

Some additional facts:

- Women sexually abused as children are three times as likely to be raped as adults.

- Women who were raped before are seven times more likely to be raped again.

- Sixty-seven percent of reported sexual assaults collected by the government’s Bureau of Justice Statistics were to children, and 34 percent to children under 12.

- A woman who was raped has a more likely than not chance of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

- People who have been sexually assaulted, including as children, are more likely to develop eating disorders.

- For women, the likelihood of being raped on a college campus is one in four.

- An estimated 70 percent of sexual assaults are not reported.


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Behold The Astonishing Pawn

Subtitle: In every weakness there is a powerful, hidden strength




My Queen,

Please review the royal diagram above. You will find that armies have more pawns that any other kind of warrior.

Your enemies do not understand the nature and the power of pawns. In fact, they mistake the term ‘pawn’ to mean ‘weak, disposable soldier’. This amazingly faulty belief works in your favor – for they will not see the danger of your army until it is too late.

Allow them to believe that your pawns are weak and ineffective. What I will teach you today, is the true nature of pawns. Let us begin!

The power of pawns is threefold:

1. Your first power is in the amount of pawns that you have.

2. Your second, even greater power is in the position of your pawns.

3. Now come close, so that I can whisper to you the third, and greatest power of your pawns…

My Queen, I tell you the secret to a great mystery: pawns are the only magical, transcendant warrior that exists. Under the right circumstances, any pawn can transform into a knight, a bishop, a castle – and yes – even a Queen.

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December 13, 2005



What the ‘Left Behind’ Series Really Means

Have we finally become the dumbest mofos on the planet?



By Joe Bageant



“Jesus merely raised one hand a few inches and a yawning chasm opened in the earth, stretching far and wide enough to swallow all of them. They tumbled in, howling and screeching, but their wailing was soon quashed and all was silent when the earth closed itself again.”

-- From Glorious Appearing by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins



“The best thing about the Left Behind books is the way the non-Christians get their guts pulled out by God.”



-- 15-year old fundamentalist fan of the Left Behind series



That is the sophisticated language and appeal of America’s all-time best selling adult novels celebrating the ethnic cleansing of non-Christians at the hands of Christ. If a Muslim were to write an Islamic version of last book in the Left Behind series, Glorious Appearing, and publish it across the Middle East, Americans would go berserk. Yet tens of millions of Christians eagerly await and celebrate an End Time when everyone who disagrees with them will be murdered in ways that make Islamic beheading look like a bridal shower. Jesus -- who apparently has a much nastier streak than we have been led to believe—merely speaks and “the bodies of the enemy are ripped wide open down the middle.” In the book Christians have to drive carefully to avoid “hitting splayed and filleted corpses of men and women and horses.” Even as the rider’s tongues are melting in their mouths and they are being wide open gutted by God’s own hand, the poor damned horses are getting the same treatment. Sort of a divinely inspired version of “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.”



This may be some of the bloodiest hate fiction ever published, but it is also what tens of millions of Americans believe is God’s will. It is approximately what everyone in the congregation sitting around me last Sunday at my brother’s church believes. Or some version of it. How can anyone acquire and hold such notions? Answer: The same way you got yours and I got mine. Conditioning. From family and school and society, but from within a different American caste than the one in which you were raised. And from things stamped deep in childhood—such as coming home terrified to an empty house.



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