Growing up in the late 70s in Detroit, there was a lot of crime news on tv.
Being young and not knowing the word rape, I thought that the newscasters were saying a woman was "raked" and it was someone scratching a woman with a metal rake (like you use to till earth.) Still a violent image, but weird how your brain compensates.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- when i was little i used to think that rape was where you used a rake to attack someone— terrordrone
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I used to think that the song "Evil Woman" was "Medieval Woman". Anon
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon