The darker subtext of Akin's 'off-handed' comments: sexual violence against women. It's still a present and common reality among girls -- and women in America.
I thought we had a societal agreement that rape was rape -- and that rape wasn't consensual. How ignorant I was.
http://open.salon.com/blog/nocheapshots/2012/08/21/taking_todd_akin_very_personally