Teach Safe Violence

[lawtonfogle]

Indeed, but I find it a somewhat difficult comparison to make. The difference between rape and a high school brawl.

The difference really depends upon how bad a brawl is. If you are thinking about one guy sucker punching another guy a few times, yeah there is a great deal of different. But some fights involve razors, and while it normally doesn't get to this point, one can have an eye gouged out in such a fight. In such a case, especially when the person who was most injured did not provoke and only retaliated in defense, I can see a comparison.

 

[lawtonfogle]

Ditto. I think I see what's meant by the claim of a parallel between the two, but I'm not seeing it pan out that way.

Sex is sex. Violence is violence. Apples and oranges. Why should we treat them the same way? They involve different things, different feelings, different results and consequences.

No one tried to say they were the same. The question is are they similar in the ways that matter, and to some people they are. Some people think that:

Sex is something only consenting adults should engage in.
Fighting is something only consenting adults should engage in.

While they are quite different is so many other things, in this they are similar, and to some people, this is what matters. And actually, the argument you should teach children how to engage in each one safely actually has some merit to it.

Granted, the OP was not trying to make that point, but was trying to use a sarcastic attack on sex ed. I just think that his sarcasm has a point in it the OP did not mean to have.

 

[lawtonfogle]

Does this mean we can compare non-consensual violence to rape?

More like:
non-consensual violence = sexual harassment
very nasty non-consensual violence (such as, needs months of rehab afterwords, maybe will never regain full use of some part of the body) = rape