There is no true beginning that came from nothing------------
Do I start with the fact that the mistakes of the grown ups around are mostly what led to my introduction to rape culture? I entered into it naïve and unarmed instead of prepared and somewhat aware as others would have been.
Do I start with the stories themselves? I could give example after example of young men who did not fit some stereotypical rapist profile, using my openness, vulnerability, trust and kindness as weapons against me? Does this mean I am foolish and they are born predators? Or does it mean they are so disconnected from how to engage in ethical sexual encounters, that they were not taught or trained to need or even want consent? Let us set the record straight right now, consensual sex is redundant. There is sex, implying consent in its definition and there is rape. A misconception is that it is not rape unless a weapon is present?
My guess is that most of rape victims do not want to give anyone the satisfaction of seeing them succumb so fully to the twisted dysfunction of harming or killing the rapist. Our society is sickly voyeuristic and systematically desensitized from these cases.
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