Listening to: The Smiths: "Singles"

R a p e   V i c t i m s   S c a l e

Today in my Personal Adjustment class we were talking about rape and the Rape Victims Scale. It has statements on it. Apparently a lot of women are offended by the statements, and rightly so. One of them is: "A healthy woman can successfully resist a rape if she really tries." Needless to say there were quite a few oh's and mumblings from the class. Denise had a comment. She's pretty stocky but said she didn't think she could fight off a big man. She looked over at me and said: "I probably couldn't even fight off someone Will's size..." Hey! What was she trying to say! -- W i l l Copyright © 2002 W i l l