I'm a little late on this. Couldn't connect to Daily Kos for a while.
I'm normally proud to proclaim I was raised in northwest Wisconsin. A rural "family values" area with a progressive mindset. Around there, family values means something different than the terms means to the Republican party. It means you take care of your family, not that you force your family's values on other families. It's an area where people care about the environment because they work, play and live in it. It's an area where people care about the well-being of others, not just themselves. It's an area where everyone is respected, even if understanding is at times lacking. Today, I'm a little less proud to make that proclamation.
A state representative is drawing heat for saying that his father had told him when he was young that "some girls rape easy" as a way to warn him that a woman could agree to sex but then later claim that it wasn't consensual.
"He also told me one thing, 'If you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry,' " Rivard said. "Because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she's not going to say, 'Oh, yeah, I was part of the program.' All that she has to say or the parents have to say is it was rape because she's underage. And he just said, 'Remember, Roger, if you go down that road, some girls,' he said, 'they rape so easy.'
"What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, 'If you're going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.' So the way he said it was, 'Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.'
"So it's been kind of taken out of context."
Out of context? Maybe. Still offensive when taken in context? Absolutely.
11:45 AM PT: Sorry, I somehow also left the link off. Here it is: http://www.jsonline.com/...