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Originally Posted by Radical  What about women who have rape fantasies? Does LoA mean that if they get raped, then it's their fault for having fantasies about it? |
Just a thought: All the objections, as with rape and child abuse, seem to be about assigning blame for the events. Instead of thinking about LoA as a method to assign blame, maybe it's best to think of it as an explanation of how things happen. After all, maybe there's a larger view than just the rape or abuse in isolation. Such as, a woman gets raped and gets the rapist prosecuted and off the streets, preventing many more rapes. Or the abused child grows up to be a counselor that helps hundreds of children get out of similar situations.
There's also a positive side to the LoA coin: yeah, they manifested the unpleasant events, but they also have the power to put an end to them via the same mechanism.
And I guess the last thing I'll say, after my experience with abused and depressed people, is that the ones I've known actually do want it to continue. They identify with their pain, and indirectly try to make the problem worse and more permanent. It can be a real struggle to help them initially, because a part of them is really scared to get better. I can't say firsthand whether they attracted the initial incident into their lives, but I am confident that they get into a pattern that attracts more of it.