Painter of Fight

ILLUSTRATION by BOB AUL

You’re the well-meaning artist who stenciled a political message on a sidewalk on Fourth near Junipero—something like, “Men Can Stop Rape if They Want.” I wanted to stencil you back: “No, they can’t.” Because what you’re missing here in the real world—not the Hallmark world in which you dwell as painted by Thomas Kinkade, the painter of light—is that rape isn’t the product of some kind of rational decision-making process. No sane person rapes someone else. So the only person capable of stopping a rapist is a woman, preferably a woman trained to use a gun. A small but powerful handgun, maybe. And she should aim for the head, because a rapist has no heart. It’s a fact. Look it up.

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