A metaphorical near-rape

When did Dennis Prager start blogging for Pandagon:

The rape of a name can be as vicious a crime and as destructive an act as the rape of a body. Sometimes the rape of a body is worse; sometimes the rape of a name is worse. But they are both rapes. And morally likening the two is in no way meant to lessen the horror of rape; it is meant only to heighten awareness of the horror of intentionally destroying the name of an innocent person.

This is as deeply and profoundly silly as anything that the rape fetishists on the feminist Left have invented. It confuses metaphor with reality. I have never been raped – although by the expanded Pandagonian definition I am a serial rapist given my willful failure to ever obtain verbal or written consent from any of my victims – but I have been labled a Nazi, a racist, a homosexual, a mysogynist and pretty much every other insult in the limited vocabulary of the Left.

I seem to have survived without the need for therapy. Although sometimes I sit on the beach in front of my villa, looking out over the Mediterranean with a glass of Amaretto in my hand, and a single tear will trickle down my face….

The thing is, there’s no point in losing any sleep over what a lying whore happens to call you, because falsely accusing people is one of the two things that lying whores do. In the very rare circumstance that she causes any legal problems or generates any genuine economic costs to you, sue her and financially ruin her for life. The problem is that most people would rather whine about being victimized than making the effort to strike back effectively.

There should, of course, be some cost to falsely accusing someone. I favor a return to the honor system, wherein the price of attacking a man’s reputation is the chance to cross swords with him. It would certainly make the blogosphere more interesting, as well as more polite.