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University Of Arizona Student Tells Women: You Deserve RapeDean Saxton, a junior, is notorious for giving inflammatory sermons in the middle of campus. This time, he argued that women are responsible for their rapes because of the way they dress and act. Saxtons stunt may have been planned in response to the Take Back the Night protest against sexual violence scheduled Tuesday night.
Saxton cut right to the chase, bluntly stating that girls who dress like a whore have it coming:
Saxton, a junior studying classics and religious studies, said his sermon was meant to convey that if you dress like a whore, act like a whore, youre probably going to get raped.
I think that girls that dress and act like it, Saxton said, they should realize that they do have partial responsibility, because I believe that theyre pretty much asking for it.
According to the Daily Wildcat, the Dean of Students received stacks of written complaints, emails and multiple phone calls regarding Saxtons sermon about women. Many students directly confronted Saxton, even trying to pull down his sign. Saxton embraced the attention on his Twitter account, posting a screenshot of an article about the Take Back the Night with the comment, The whores are out. In other sermons, Saxton has cursed people who are gay, have pre-marital sex, masturbate or have lustful thoughts. His Twitter account is rife with anti-Muslim sentiment, as well; last month he tweeted, There will come a time when the sword will be put to the heathen.
However hateful his speech may be, university attorneys told angry students that Saxton is exercising his right to free speech, and has yet to violate the student code of conduct.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/25/1920021/arizona-student-deserve-rape/?mobile=nc
What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. People.
I can't even put into words how I feel after reading this. I need to go outside and breath fresh air. FUCK!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)you realize, it's Arizona ...
get the red out
(13,468 posts)that people who call for the horrific abuse of others deserve to have their life totally fucked up when it goes viral? Because this asshole is about to find out about that.
BainsBane
(53,056 posts)I didn't realize she lived in Arizona. Now I know.
Initech
(100,099 posts)TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)he's a good Christian and a preacher. He's an extremist who believes 'god' made men to be the masters of women.
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Why, oh why, are the sexually repressed so damned contemptible?
olddots
(10,237 posts)n.t.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)religious villain who ends up being a serial killer because of his deep-seated desire to have all the things he rails against.
octothorpe
(962 posts)As frustrating as people like him are, there isn't much you can do. You're not going to be able to reason with him or get him to see what a worthless piece of shit he is. And if you simply try to silence him, then it will just give him the attention he wants. I think the best way to deal with him is to ignore him and let him silence himself once he realizes no one gives a shit about the filth he spews.
cali
(114,904 posts)Oh, yeah. Hateful sign intended to cause pain.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Yes, this is probably just within the borders of legally protected free speech - although arguably it's incitement to crime.
But any student code of conduct that doesn't prohibit this probably needs looking at again.
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)then that they are ho's, sluts, deserve to be raped
is that a problem yet? or just more comfortable to ignore all that and focus on ONE man's opinion?
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Ah, purity culture. Ain't it beautiful?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He should be beaten to a pulp. After all, he has provoked us.