The ongoing obsession with rape at elite schools — because no one gives a shit about rape at some random community college, it’s always about the elite schools — is never really about the (usually female) victims, it’s about the (usually cis male) rapists, and that makes me so tired and so sad.

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There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.

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I was on the receiving end of so much male harassment on Twitter as a visible woman who was both queer & fat, and I definitely remember which of my male friends thought they were helping by getting into the replies to start fights for fun with some asshole stranger and making everything worse for me

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the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence

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I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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