"Fighting this attitude without looking paranoid or accusatory (“any guy could be a rapist” seems to hit some ears as “every guy is a rapist”) is tricky. But it’s necessary. It’s necessary to prevent rape—to teach people that they do have to worry about whether they, personally, are getting consent, even though they are nice people. And it’s necessary to punish rapists—to break down that mental barrier protecting Julian Assange and Roman Polanski and umpty-zillion sports players, the one that says “a likeable person who’s done good things can’t possibly commit rape.” Finally, it’s necessary to stop blaming survivors for not having the psychic powers to know they were going to be assaulted."
#pervocracy
#rape
#feminism
#consent