EXCLUSIVE: Victims' Advocates Speak Out Against Khloe Kardashian After Her Rape Comment
Dec. 7 2010, Published 5:20 a.m. ET
Khloe Kardashian is being blasted by victim’s rights advocates after comparing a security pat down at the airport with rape.
Numerous advocates spoke to Breaking Celebrity News after Khloe told George Lopez about the TSA procedure, “Well, they basically are just raping you in public.
Jazmin Robles a community education coordinator with the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center, told Breaking Celebrity News that Khloe needs to be educated.
“I think it was an ill-informed thing for her to say, “ Robles said. “It was a very strong comment to make because rape is defined as ‘forceful penetration’ and a lot of young women look up to celebrities like the Kardashians.
“We are all about educating people about rape at our Center and by using the word in this context it blurs the issue as to what it actually constitutes. “Maybe Khloe Kardashian is not educated enough on this subject to be talking about it in the context of airport security.”
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High-profile attorney Gloria Allred has been a tireless victims’ rights advocate and told Breaking Celebrity News that Khloe acted completely inappropriately.
“Rape is a crime of violence,” Allred told Breaking Celebrity News. “I believe that the word should not be used loosely to describe security measures at airports or at any other place. I think that many victims of sexual assault who have been the true victims of men who committed that violent crime against them and who have been forced to suffer the physical and emotional harm that results from that crime would be insulted that the term would be used in the way that Ms. Kardashian used it.