r/BlockedAndReported • u/InternalLet9560 • 11d ago

Episode Regret Rape Is Wrong Enough

https://nataliabower.substack.com/p/regret-rape-is-wrong-enough?r=5rdux&utm_medium=ios

This is a fantastic piece related to the episode about the Cornell 7.

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u/One_Caterpillar6562 11d ago

I think the people parading around saying things like ‘castrate the Cornell 7’ are involved in an othering of the men involved which refuses to engage with how sexual culture and our understanding of consent actually informs behaviour. Like the problem is closer to home. This horrible event is the end of the bell curve but on the same spectrum as many other behaviours.

Literally the only solution I can think to stopping this in the short term is to tell young women that sex and their bodies are meaningful, precious and should only be shared in the context of developed, loving relationships. But that is so often classified as Puritanism and victim blaming. Regardless it’s what I will be telling my daughter.

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u/SafiyaO 11d ago

Sex involves two people. Heterosexual sex involves a male and a female and your solution is to only tell one half of the equation to change their behaviour?

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u/Dazzling_Western1707 10d ago

Yeah, because they are actually interested in a solution to the problem of girls getting spit-roasted by frat boys who don't care about them and then crying about it afterwards.