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“What specifically makes it a crime? If the real crime of rape is the violation of another person's autonomy, the use of another person's body against their wishes, then it shouldn't matter what the victim was wearing, if she was drinking, how much sexual experience she's had before, or whether she fought hard enough to get bruises on her knuckles and skin under her fingernails. What matters is that the attacker deliberately ignored another person's basic human right to determine what she does with her own body. It's not about sex. It's about power.”
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“We tend to imagine rapists, like terrorists, as an omnipresent and often unidentifiable threat, everywhere and nowhere at once. Since we don't know exactly who will strike or when, we agree that the best we can do is try to avoid victimhood. We put pressure on potential targets to volunteer for safety rituals, that create the illusion of security, while quietly eroding our freedom.”
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
“A person who reports sexual violence to police, most likely, is not an attention monitoring mandating liars. It is safe and logical and ethical to presume that person is a victim, unless there are specific indications that this is one of the rare false reports.”
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
“Rape and sexual assault are unusual, if not quite unique, in that often, the only real evidence of a crime is the victim's testimony. Physical evidence might demonstrate that a sexual encounter took place between two people, but even cuts and bruises can't definitively prove lack of consent on one person's part. Especially if the accused is the alleged victim's friend, lover or spouse, or someone with whom they freely chose to leave a party. Ultimately, in the absence of photographic or video evidence, it comes down to one person's word against another's. The most obvious tragic result of this fact is that nearly half of rapes are never reported, fewer are prosecuted, and even fewer lead to a felony conviction. Victims wonder what the point of reporting uncorroborated sexual violence is, and they're not wrong.”
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
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