I think it does matter. If we look at the circumstances in which the government shows its outrage, I think we're all kind of...we know it. I think what's happening--and I may be skirting your issues--is just the parallels between how we have traditionally coined women as madonnas or the polar opposite, and now with children as criminals or victims.... Doing that really doesn't show the complexity of people and of women's and children's lives. It doesn't show the whole spectrum.
I agree with you. I think the language we use when we condemn really connotes when we're really offended by something and when we're mildly kind of annoyed. That's what particularly bothers me about the prevention part of the sexual violence thing. Prevention is a bit in the health spectrum; it doesn't have the judicial kind of model or undergirding necessary for recourse dealing with sexual violence. To me, prevention sounds like such a mild-mannered way to deal with sexual violence and the brutality that women experience.