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406. Recognition

By Joel Jacobsen

In the CBS interview (see post 405), David Lisak described one way in which rapists choose their victims, or as the rapists themselves prefer to see them, their conquests.  Writing in the London Review of Books, Jenny Diski captured, in a skin-crawling way, the narcissism of rapists.  She was 14 at the time: It was also very painful – I hadn't known that happened either. Several times I screamed with the pain. I was crying throughout, and asking him to stop (I used the word ‘please' a lot). I still wasn't scared for my life. He wasn't violent: he just carried on, refusing to stop, repeating that I was no virgin and paying no attention when I told him it hurt. He wasn't violent. I mean that he didn't hit me. When he'd finished, he stood and straightened his clothes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on November 13, 2009 (boomark / email).