@ElizSimins do you ever wonder, though, whether rape is still so exoticized that no one will own up to it—
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@ElizSimins — or if they do, the backlash is worse than what would happen if you denied?
@ElizSimins since even with a shaky denial, you still get the loving and public support of a bajillion dudes
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@sarahjeong yeah I think it's the word "rape" tbh Which makes me crazy because IT IS A WORD AND IT MEANS WHAT IT MEANS -
@ElizSimins I’m very conflicted about ascribing an appropriate level of WRONGNESS to rape… but not turning it into “ONLY MONSTERS DO IT” -
@sarahjeong same. I don't want to be like WE ARE ALL RAPISTS (in oprah's voice) but like we do need to think differently about what it means -
@ElizSimins i know, i just wish i had a fuller understanding of what “differently” should mean -
@sarahjeong —make the phrasing somehow less extreme for the benefit of the assailants?? -
@ElizSimins exactly. or to offer extralegal dispute resolution frameworks for truth/reconciliation between accuser/accused— feels so FUCKED -
@ElizSimins but the current system of “no one ever goes to jail and it’s HELL to testify” is completely broken -
@ElizSimins idk my friend wrote an article about creating restorative justice solutions for rape in college and i’m still digesting - 1 réponse de plus
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@sarahjeong but people are so afraid of being thought of AS A RAPIST that they forget that.. Maybe they have committed acts of assault. -
@ElizSimins@sarahjeong people fuck up, sometimes REALLY horribly, but pretending it's never happened? that didn't even work in pre-k.
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