sarah jeong

@ElizSimins do you ever wonder, though, whether rape is still so exoticized that no one will own up to it—

@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

@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??