What are they thinking???????

         I've watched a lot of the New Orleans coverage and I'm very upset to hear there were rapes going on.  I just have to wonder: WHY?

        I doubt very much that there is ONE female who thinks of sex or satisfying sexual needs during a horrific crisis!   Women may want to be held, be comforted, and that in turn might FEEL sexual.  But, it passes.

        Yet, it is not enough to say "ONLY MEN would think of SEXUAL NEEDS in such a situation!"  It is well-known that rape is a power issue, a control issue.  But, I think it is more than that.  Many men simply do not know how to be close, get comfort, or get any emotional needs met EXCEPT through sex.  They misinterpret everything they are feeling and turn those emotions into "I must control you; I must 'have' you."  

         However, whatever reasons are behind the rapes in New Orleans, it is appalling. 

        But there is quite a bit going on that's appalling.  Murders, beatings, robbery.  Why??  Everyone there is in the "same boat" - that is, with NO boat, no way out, and dwindling hope.  So why beat each other?  Why rob someone?  Why KILL?  Hasn't the hurricaine and flooding already killed enough people, and left the rest hurting? 

        Where is their humanity?????

         It's gone.  If they ever had any, that is.