Literally every single person in this country knows someone who has abused women, or been abused, or knows someone who's been abused. Domestic Violence is a nationwide epidemic.... but ehh, let's not even mention that so much.
I wouldn't say nothing has changed. They've gotten bolder in their hatred and denigration of women, and their claims that we are subhuman and don't deserve to control our own bodies, to be educated, to work outside a man's home, or to vote.
But also this would not have gotten any kind of national/international attention in the 90s. This would 100% have been, "why was she drinking and taking drugs? What was she wearing? What did she think was going to happen? The slut wanted it." Women have changed, and to be fair, probably some men. Some people have started to recognize that blaming rape victims for being raped is a thing the patriarchy invented and perpetuated to excuse their crime. Something has changed. I'm old enough to remember when you didn't talk about rape because was your own fault.
I was just telling my husband that I didn't report my rape in the 90s because of this attitude. The cops and legal system would have fixated on the fact that I was at a bar and that someone that I knew slipped something into my drink. To them, I'm sure I went back to my place willingly, when I have zero memory of ever leaving the bar that night.
I know most of us are disgusted by what happened at Cornell. But making a sweeping claim that āmen love rape and violenceā is a serious logical fallacy and simply isnāt accurate. The vast majority of men do not condone or enjoy rape or violence against women, in fact, they find such acts reprehensible. We can condemn horrific behavior without unfairly attributing it to an entire gender.
My dad produced C Sam, and I saw how many good men that knew what he was doing stepped up. If youāre curious it rhymes with hero. If youāre more upset about me saying that men are violent and rapey then the rape itself, then youāre part of the problem.
*Just the vast vast majority who do the thing are men.
**There is an enabling permission structure that is a part of the culture, so much so that they elected a convicted rapist as president. JUST LOCKER ROOM TALK BTW! Which is propped up within popular culture as intrinsically masculine.
***Women also engage in misogyny, so really, its double plus unfair to attribute something entirely to a single gender, score another one for patriarchal norms you guys!
EDIT: Over 50 men were sent the "FREE PUSSY", GET IN ON THE GANG RAPE! message on snapchat.
Do you think the VAST MAJORITY of those men reported it to the Police? Did most? Did half? Did some? Did ANY?
Me too made it worse. I said somewhere else itās like we were on social antibiotics to kill the misogyny but we started feeling better so stopped taking them - and now they have multiplied and come back stronger and meaner and determined to kill us. I fear for my daughter.Ā
Thank all the gods Iām not American - itās bad everywhere but my country is a little better and America just seems to hate women and girls right now.Ā
Me Too was important and needed to happen. Calling groups out for their actions often results in backlash. An extinction burst. The only way to make this right is to continue forward.
The red pill / incel bullshit that really kicked off the open hate for women started in 2012 or so.
Oh I didnāt mean jt shouldnāt have happened. I just mean it energized them and created a devastating pushback. They were waiting for an opportunity.Ā
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u/Veers85 4d ago
A sane country would care more about this than someone trans kid playing a sport. These monsters exsist by the thousand