Also relevant: all models are white.

“There’s no relating that kind of experience to someone who has never been there.” Completely agree. I’ve found survivor groups somewhat helpful for this reason.

“Do you actually believe the arrest(s) is (are) for humiliating themselves and their families?”

you know, you really don’t realize how harmful the language you use is.

Nicely phrased.

That is just absolutely false. Know what stops rapists from raping again? Rapists not raping. I will never remove the agency rapists have from this conversation. The idea that we have power in this system is laughable. 6 out of every 1000 people who commit rape are incarcerated. We are oppressed by white supremacist…

I’m pretty sure that the categories overlap, in that you could endorse both rape and unwanted sexual touching. We’d need granular data to figure out how many people endorse at least one of the categories of sexual assault. IE you could endorse unwanted sexual touching but not rape or both rape and sexual touching;…

Right? Most surveys put sexual assault among female college aged women at 1 in 4 or 1 in 5.

you must have never experienced the reporting system.

When I read the headline, I thought 15% of female undegrads had reported their rape to their school. The headline could actually read “UT Austin perpetuates same rape culture as all other US undergrad institutions, results validated by survey.” Like 10% is okay at the other UT schools but 15% is too high? If UT Austin…

ya’ll gotta watch Sweet/Vicious this weekend for some vigilante justice! and yeah, the justice system works for very few people. having participated in this system/in campus reporting myself, and having separately worked with incarcerated populations, we need reform to (at least) make it less awful for…