During any type of physical assault one is hopped up on adrenaline and other chemicals. Pain is minimized and sometimes blocked totally. Pain is not the issue (at least not immediately).
Violation is a powerful word that describes a powerful effect. Yet, is not "violation" in the mind of the beholder?
Femicrits want all to believe - especialy women - that rape is THE MOST DEVASTATING event that a women could possibly face. How this diminishes the emotional and spritiual strenght of a woman! Make victims of them all!
It is not the event that causes trauma, it is how the person perceives said trauma. The activating event does not create a cause and effect relationship.
no2fembots had the priviledge of working with old folks living in long term care facilites. One old woman told the 'bot about her rape at the hand of a German soldier in the Netherlands. She was beat, abused and roughly penetrated. The soldier kicked her in the stomach as an afterthought, post "coitus".
This woman was in her early 30s at the time. Healthy but underfed. She got up, brushed the dirt off her dress, straightened out her hair and went home. She considered herself lucky because (a) she had not been shot, (b) she had been beaten, but not to a pulp, (c) SHE WAS ALIVE!!!
The foregoing is only offered as (subjective) proof that the global statement "all rape is tramautic" is inherently false.
But to state that the act is not capable of inducing tramatic effect is equally absurd.
For the record, no2fembots, leaving the restaraunt, was punched in the face by one of two men walking into a Denny's from the parking lot many years ago. The shock was electric! To be hit out of the blue with no provocation at all was truly a violation that galvanized this poor 'bot! The sense of indignant outrage felt was all out of proportion to the activating event - the punch.
The retaliation rained upon the head of the hapless attacker was also out of all proportion to the event.
