Quote Detail

Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can__ have their positive aspects in the long run? _ You have to be careful of taking a knee-jerk attitude. Having a knee-jerk attitude to anything is a mistake, especially in the case of women, where it adds up to this very limited and condescending thing of saying they__e fragile, breakable things that can be destroyed easily. Everybody gets hurt and violated and broken sometimes. Why are women so special? Not that anybody ought to be raped or abused, nobody__ saying that, but that__ what is going on. What about afterwards? All I__ saying is there are certain cases where it can enlarge you or make you more of a complete human being, like Viktor Frankl. Think about the Holocaust. Was the Holocaust a good thing? No way. Does anybody think it was good that it happened? No, of course not. But did you read Viktor Frankl? Viktor Frankl__ Man__ Search for Meaning? It__ a great, great book, but it comes out of his experience. It__ about his experience in the human dark side. Now think about it, if there was no Holocaust, there__ be no Man__ Search for Meaning_ . Think about it. Think about being degraded and brought within an inch of your life, for example. No one__ gonna say the sick bastards who did it shouldn__ be put in jail, but let__ put two things into perspective here. One is, afterwards she knows something about herself that she never knew before. What she knows is that the most totally terrible terrifying thing that she could ever have imagined happening to her has now happened, and she survived. She__ still here, and now she knows something. I mean she really, really knows. Look, totally terrible things happen_ . Existence in life breaks people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time, trust me I know. I__e been there. And this is the big difference, you and me here, cause this isn__ about politics or feminism or whatever, for you this is just ideas, you__e never been there. I__ not saying nothing bad has ever happened to you, you__e not bad looking, I__ sure there__ been some sort of degradation or whatever come your way in life, but I__ talking Viktor Frankl__ Man__ Search for Meaning type violation and terror and suffering here. The real dark side. I can tell from just looking at you, you never. You wouldn__ even wear what you__e wearing, trust me. What if I told you it was my own sister that was raped? What if I told you a little story about a sixteen-year-old girl who went to the wrong party with the wrong guy and four of his buddies that ended up doing to her just about everything four guys could do to you in terms of violation? But if you could ask her if she could go into her head and forget it or like erase the tape of it happening in her memory, what do you think she__ say? Are you so sure what she__ say? What if she said that even after that totally negative as what happened was, at least now she understood it was possible. People can. Can see you as a thing. That people can see you as a thing, do you know what that means? Because if you really can see someone as a thing you can do anything to him. What would it be like to be able to be like that? You see, you think you can imagine it but you can__. But she can. And now she knows something. I mean she really, really knows. This is what you wanted to hear, you wanted to hear about four drunk guys who knee-jerk you in the balls and make you bend over that you didn__ even know, that you never saw before, that you never did anything to, that don__ even know your name, they don__ even know your name to find out you have to choose to have a fucking name, you have no fucking idea, and what if I said that happened to ME? Would that make a difference?