I'm finding it rather interesting that of the people responding to
PhoneyNT's original question about what makes rape so bad (and subsequent
thread drift), the females/female-online-personas seem to be rather strongly
in favor of nasty punishments for rapists, while those coming out against
those nasty punishments (stating that they are excessive/cruel-and-unusual
punishment/against the US Bill of Rights) while still saying rape is wrong
are male/male-online-personas...

Just an observation...

Jeanne Hedge

I think no-one deserves such a thing as that. You say no-one deserves rape
which I agree with. However no-one deserves having their sexual organs
destroyed in such a foul manner either. It gives people some idea of how bad 
rape is but unless you have been raped yourself you cannot entirely understand 
why rape is so bad. I know it is terrible. I can sympathize with the victims
but unless I am raped I will never understand quite who degrading it is. If I 
suggested that people how suggested destroying someones sexual organs in 
such a manner should be raped I'd be pounced upon and QUITE RIGHT TOO. The 
actual suggestion of such a punishment has given Phoney a vague idea of how 
bad it is. Nobody deserves to be castrated. No-one desrves to be raped. 
I hope this is a reasonable argumaent and Yes phoney Ranma would regress to a 
female because Men Don't Get Raped.  This is false but it permeates even the 
American and Anglican culture imagine how bad it would be for Ranma who 
believes this far more strongly than we do.

(yes I am male obviously. Imagine if someone hacked(and I mean hacked) off 
your breast's females. That is almost as bad as castration. You can no more 
understand us having our testicles cut off than we can rape.)

David