Another Catholic Priest talks through his hole

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

But in fairness he's not wrong. Techically if she wasn't out she wouldn't have died.

techically is not a word!!

I do like Sarah Silverman's 10 Rape Preventions for Men

I'm just waiting for a drive-by post from one of the usual suspects, the sort of ultramontanist who's offended when others are offended by something like that "Sounds of Sodomy" leaflet.

CarpeDiem85 wrote: »

While I don't agree with what he said, I do think that a lot of women (and men) I know put themselves in very unsafe situations. I used to live on Aungier St in town and if I was out socialising on Harcourt St, I would still take a taxi home. Taxi drivers would get thick that it was only around the corner but I didn't care. I would never walk home on my own late at night. I am going to drill this message into my daughter when she gets older. You can never be too careful and there are far too many opportunistics out there who are only too willing to take advantage if they got half a chance.

And of course taxi drivers have never raped any of their clients.

You just don't know when someone is going to do something like this, it could be at 3am, it could be at 3pm, it could be someone that is a nutter or someone ostensibly incredibly trustworthy. Not so long ago in the UK there was a cancer doctor jailed for abusing dozens of children that were in his care, it's not always the scumbags who do this stuff.

CarpeDiem85 wrote: »

While I don't agree with what he said, I do think that a lot of women (and men) I know put themselves in very unsafe situations. I used to live on Aungier St in town and if I was out socialising on Harcourt St, I would still take a taxi home. Taxi drivers would get thick that it was only around the corner but I didn't care. I would never walk home on my own late at night. I am going to drill this message into my daughter when she gets older. You can never be too careful and there are far too many opportunistics out there who are only too willing to take advantage if they got half a chance.

this makes it sound that rape is a crime of opportunity- that there are loads of guys out there that would rape, if they had the chance. That's crazy. Women shouldn't be constantly worried that they will get raped - it's very sad that they do, and the fault of the rapists but also societies that have allowed rapists to carry on by covering their crimes etc. In fact most guys would never think about raping someone. A minority obviously have something wrong with them, but while a reasonable amount of vigilance is just a common sense way to be, living with a huge weight of fear is no way to be. As a society we should evolve beyond that and create a society where women don't have to be fearful.

In my opinion the most important lesson to teach one's children is respect for other people, maybe that would reduce the number of rapes. Women always being paranoid and on the lookout might stop a minority of rapes but most rapes aren't the kind you are portraying in your post.

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Well, he apologised, sort of.



Implying of course, if she wasn't a nice Irish Catholic, then he meant what he said, and she deserved it for not being at home in bed.

Jesus wept.

He completely apologised:

“I am very remorseful it came out like that, I am very apologetic and I ask for pardon, I apologise sincerely, especially to all the Irish people and especially to all those for whom Jill Meagher has been and is so dear,” Fr Joseph told RTE Radio One’s John Murray show.

And that's from the article you quoted.