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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am upset by a specific theme in this thread.

The first is that posters are more upset by the PSU situation because it was male rape, which by definition is generally seen as more unusual and therefore worse than male/female rape?  Come on!  Women/girls are raped daily/hourly/minutely and it is seen/reported/unreported and in far worse circumstances. I am insulted that the suggestion here is that this is more important bc less common.

Please correct my misunderstanding. I am sure you will.  I have a DS and DD and have intentions to explain these issues EQUALLY although women are obviously at greater risk.
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People are "more" (and I would say instead "particularly") upset about this because (1) the person was a serial rapist with many victims over longer than a decade, (2) the victims were all children, (3) the person set up a children's charity in order to gain access to children to rape, (4) the person fostered and adopted children in order to rape them, (5) the person was discovered in the act by adults who did nothing to stop it, and (6) the other adults who were tasked with acting also did nothing to stop it.  It has nothing to do with the children being boys, I am as particularly upset by this as I was by the father who kept his daughter in the basement and raped her for 25 years.  The duration, number of victims, and repetition by a single perpetrator make both of these situations more shocking than other rapes, although all rapes are horrible.[/quote]

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