She’s the hero for trying to save her own life, more like a person desperately seeking their own survival? To call her a “hero” is caricatural, fantastical, even infantile, she was a person understandably full of fear desperately seeking to survive which meant obviously escape.

From my aunt’s description, it wasn’t sexed up, but wasn’t violent, either (to reflect many date rapes), so to some male viewers it just didn’t look like a big deal, and seemed easy to get away with. It’s a very disturbing story. I think boys often get the message that women are not really human, so by the time they…

I think this could be useful, though, when you’re trying to get idiotic boys to empathize with rape victims. Judging by many online comments (like the one by a fool who described Brock Turner’s assault victim as someone who “got rubbed a little”) some of them truly believe that women don’t have any feeling, and it’s…