No, but that's not what's fucking important and thus the point of this meme. For fucks sake, gender based violence will continue even if you don't participate in it. You are the exception to a very real rule and your derailment by placing the focus back on men instead of on the violence makes you complicit. That is…

was just going to post this here

I don't think that kind of pain deserves a punchline. I'm sorry that you weren't treated the way you should have been.

I'm the daughter of someone who was bullied as a kid, and this kind of message really only creates entitlement to bully other people. There's that sense of "I sucked it up, so can you", "Don't be so sensitive, I've experienced worse." mentality that created a pretty hostile environment for me and my sister when we…

This is beautiful.

Yeah, the victim over the perpetrator. I really wonder which one has more to gain by lying.

He doesn't get to dictate what his victim gets to call him and his actions.

You saying what he did was wrong but refusing to name it helps no one. People, especially the people who have experienced this kind violence and the lack of justice that usually corresponds to naming an abuser, have a right to call out injustice when they see it whether or not a fallible system serves justice or does…

Incidentally, does his lack of conviction mean that the women he ejaculated on and into while unconscious did not experience the rape? Someone should probably tell her...

That's some blind faith in the justice system you got there

So the finding of DNA evidence of ejaculate in and on the body of a unconscious women is a definition you don't agree with?

A lot of the perspectives here are extremely reductionistic. I hope people know that there are religious people who have access to all the information you have about science and the world and the nature of power that gets wrapped up in both? I am Christian and I can easily hold evolutionary biology in my head at the…

nope.

I get this. My partner hugs me like a postage stamp and tries to do the face to face thing, and I'm usually almost falling off my side of the bed just to get some cool dry space. I just don't understand how it's anywhere near possible to sleep while breathing in hot recycled air in a tangle of sweaty limbs all night.

April Fools??...?

Many schools require rape to be reported to campus authorities instead of the police, with students threatened with expulsion if they don't comply- because schools don't want negative publicity. I agree that they should absolutely be able to call 911, but it's often not the procedure they're given.

The problem is that universities often insist on dealing with this internally, and honestly, the cops never seem to do any better.

It's so so very hard for people to grasp the concept that a restaurant is not their own personal kitchen.