I originally had fake names in there as a joke, but then I took them out because I thought “nah, this is stupid enough.”

This kid looks like if a mad scientist tried to make Will Forte a total babe.

Well if she is acting she’s got a lot of anger to draw from. Girl is fed the fuck up for a lot of good reason.

It looks hella tacky to me. Like girl got lost on her way to Coachella

*yawn*

I still have the dress I was wearing the night I was raped. It’s not at fault and clothes are expensive.

I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that. Are you saying she shouldn’t have? Why not? We don’t get to determine how a victim heals or recovers, or from where they draw strength. Maybe keeping them helps her remember it wasn’t the clothes, and she finds that reminder empowering, and also, clearly, to demolish…

One thing that I keep coming back to is that they don’t see where the “modesty” train is, and they don’t seem to understand that there isn’t a clear line- they always jump to ridiculous things like “running around in underwear.” Like, is a tee shirt and shorts immodest? How long, exactly do they have to be to be…

If dress had anything to do with rapes, women who wear burkas would have a 0% chance of getting raped. But women in burkas still get raped.

Even so, it’s irrelevant what those 11% that are raped by strangers are wearing, or not wearing. The one dressing provocatively is no more asking to be victimized than the one dressing modestly, and it happens to both, “common sense” or no. So she’s incorrect on both counts.

Mary Kay Letourneau? I’m sure she or whoever you’re talking about defended herself in whatever insane way a person who rapes children could defend themselves. But...how many people agreed with her? Do you think they put that 12 year old boy on the stand and grilled him about his sexual history? If it had come to light…

Rape is also a crime of power, where the victim feels helpless and out of control. Telling themselves that it was their own fault is a very common way of taking power back; changing the narrative so that the situation was due to their own actions - even wrong ones- allows them to feel like they aren’t so powerless.

She is discounting the fact that around 89% of rapes are non-stranger. But I don’t think she’s the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree by any stretch of the imagination.

No, no - only men have uncontrollable impulses, not women, silly.

1)Thank you.

We all need to feel in control of our own lives and destinies. That, coupled with the heavy undercurrent of victim-blaming we’ve all been socialized into, makes that reaction next to impossible to fight. :(

“I know this is a CONTROVERSIAL thing to say - [insert some sexist/racist/homophobic shit that people have been saying since the dawn of humanity].”

BRB, gonna make some ‘murderer’ pins. And then if a man still comes home with me and I murder him it’ll be his fault, right? I mean - I advertised. I don’t have to go to prison now?

“Oh, come on! That’s just silly. If I’m walking around and I’m very modestly dressed and I’m keeping to myself and someone attacks me, then I’d say that’s his fault. But if I’m being very lairy and putting it about and being provocative, then you are enticing someone who’s already unhinged — don’t do that. Come on!…

Is this the gentleman Mark has offended? I will bestow great benediction upon him.