Satanic ritual abuse wank
I dithered about whether to put this in unfunnybusiness or here, but in the end Satanic Ritual Abuse is not real, and what the person who said it was said was so funny it belonged here.

People who blatantly deny the existence of ritual abuse after being offered solid resources to the contrary demonstrate that they don’t need evidence about its existence. Instead, when they continue to deny its existence in a seemingly obsessive manner, they are more likely trolling for new victims in hopes that responding survivors will – while more emotional – slip-up and provide vulnerable, personal information.

There you go. If you deny the existance of ritual abuse, it's because you're looking for new victims to ritually abuse.

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white_serpent
2009-12-15 05:45 pm UTC (link)

Exactly. An extension of this kind of paranoia is why my mother-in-law forwards me every. single. urban. legend. to hit her email box, all of them describing ways something seemingly-harmless is going to cause a woman to be attacked.

Could something similar happen one day? Maybe (technical impossibilities aside), but focusing on it is just encouraging women to be afraid to go out in public.

The RSA panic just leads to people believing that it's never, under any circumstances, safe to have your children out of your sight. That's paralyzing.

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	lady_ganesh 2009-12-15 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	It also perpetuates the myth that the only people who abuse kids are caregivers or 'strangers.' I know three people personally who were raped as kids. The perpetrators? Dad, dad, mom's boyfriend. 30% of sexual abusers are family members. Caregivers can be dangerous, too, don't get me wrong, but...gaaah, this topic makes me into a wanky asshole, clearly. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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