Rape is one of the more heinous things  a person can do to another person.  Physical damage aside–and it can be quite considerable–the emotional scars last a lifetime–I may be wrong, never having been raped myself, but I have been emotionally abused, and I have carried the emotional scars from that for over half a century.

So why does rape happen?  Simple.  Because we choose for it to happen, just as we choose for wars and world hunger to happen.  At the basis of these choices are a few false beliefs–such as that some of us are better than others, that we are not ALL One.  We create our own reality by our thoughts, words, and deeds, and as a group, or species, we co-create many of the things that the ignorant and unevolved blame God for.

I can just hear some men saying–whoa–I don’t favor rape.  Don’t blame me.  Okay first of all, there is no blame going on here, but we all–all of us–are accountable for the dismal state of the world.  So, you guys who say you never raped anyone, and do not approve ot if, think about this.

Rape can only exist in a world in which women are demeaned, devalued.  Have you ever laughed at a blonde joke–or kept silent if you disapproved?  Have you ever made sexist remark–or kept silent which such remarks were made in your hearing?  If so, you are part of the problem.

Many years ago, Freud posed a famous question–”What do women want?”  I would venture to suggest that women want, quite simply, to be treated like human beings.