On Rape and Bob Beckel...

I've been reading some blog posts in response to Bob Beckel's comments on rape and the more I read the more disappointed I get... It's infuriating how clueless and cruel people can be when they think they personally aren't affected by a certain issue... do people really think that all rape victims(survivors) are or should be brave and/or emotionally strong enough to report what happens to them as soon as it happens? Do you honestly think you could "always" tell if someone you know had been raped at one point in her life?... I admit, it may sometimes feel like a scarlet A, but the truth is unless they/we want you to know about something so private, you could never guess, because often the first thing we learn to do afterwards is how to hide those scars. Because rape survivors/victims are generally conditioned and taught to blame themselves for the attack (unless someone with better understanding of the issue reminds them not to...), more often than not they will be ashamed and try to forget and bury the whole thing, pretend it never happened....