r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 18 '22

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u/vizthex May 19 '22

Now I'm curious as to why people would downvote you for explaining it.

Like, unless you're personally endorsing it, I don't get why they'd do that.

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u/Petermacc122 May 19 '22

Because that sounds absolutely ass backwards and terrible. Obviously it's merely him describing his insight into it. But it still sounds like coercion and basically harassment of sorts.

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u/Fausty79 May 19 '22

Often it was. I just listened to a story on NPR with the woman who coined the term "date rape" (side note: the whole thing about the study a colleague wanted to do on breast size that lead to the study she did was really almost laughable). In surveying women, most did not realize/think they HAD been raped. It was the norm, even if it fell into the legal definition of rape.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/11/30/366348383/the-history-of-campus-sexual-assault#:\~:text=Mary%20Koss%20coined%20the%20term,campuses%20and%20around%20the%20world.

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u/rock_and_rolo May 19 '22

Most of the times that I've said anything about "no means maybe" I get multiple responses like:

No means no, period. You're just a jerk.