You know that, I know that, people of China know that and the citizens of Korea know that but for some reason Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe doesn’t think it’s that bad. Perhaps he’s a distant relative of Clayton Williams the ex-gubernatorial candidate for Texas who made a “joke” to a reporter, likening bad weather to rape, “as long as it’s inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” Let’s also not forget one of his infamous responses to his defeat by Ann Richards, a recovering alcoholic, “Well, I hope she doesn’t go back to drinkin’!”.
In 1937, Japan was one of the worst offenders. The Chinese refer to this as the Rape of Nanking. Tens of thousands of women were brutally raped over a period of six weeks.
I never understood the term, “brutally raped”. It seems redundant.
bru‧tal‧ly, adverb
1. savage; cruel;
Rape is brutal.
Rape is the one word in the English language that does not need an adverb to modify it. Its like describing an orange as an orange orange.
Unless there are different methods of rape I’m not aware of:
A flower deliveryman delicately raped a young woman this evening in her apartment today.
or
Father Aguilar was arrested today because of allegations that stated he had passive–aggressively raped an altar boy.
or
Israeli president Moshe Katsav secretly raped his secretary.
or
Since Mark Foley was molested my a priest and brainwashed by his alcoholism, he reluctantly raped a 16-year-old page.
Rapist beware someone just invented an anit-rape condom called Rapex
(I’m not lying. Click on the link).
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