The problem gentlemen is you think "rapist" means scary man in a hoodie lurking in an alleyway at 3am. Of course you'd block that guy.
But it's the boyfriend you really loved who was angry that you hadn't wanted sex for two days and pinned you for the bed and then felt really bad about it.
It's the really sweet guy backstage who you loved working with for the whole production who knew you only wanted to be friends and then got you drunk at the after party and raped you in a dressing room.
It's the husband who whined and pleaded for sex long after you've said no for hours and refused to take no for an answer until you gave in every night for four years until you realised what it was.
It's the childhood friend who knows your parents and is your brother's best mate who suddenly attacked you when you were 17 and then told you he'd be thrown out of Oxford if you said anything.
It's the kind colleague who offered to drive you home from that conference when there was a train strike and then forced his hands into your pants in a lay-by and then threatened to leave you there at 3am if you didn't stop being a cockteasing bitch.
We're not dumb. We see the constant attempts to make anything short of stranger with a knife made up, regret, our fault really, a matter of the woman not being clear.
We know why you keep trying to make this 'not rape'. Because if coercion, marital rape, pressure, manipulation and exploitation count, then the comforting fantasy that rape is only ever a stranger with a knife falls apart.
Friendly reminder to those who need it:
The UK left the European Union, not the continent. Geography still applies — so the UK is still, in fact, in Europe.
You know when you go to a restaurant & there’s that kid running around doing what tf it likes & the parents are sitting there oblivious & doing fuck all?
Trump is that toddler & American is the parent. Control your fucking kid America, please. We’re all fecking sick it.
“It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
~ Karl Stojka, Auschwitz Survivor
The most accurate metaphor for gender violence statistics. Bus full of empty seats but he will sit exactly beside her and then say he’s a victim protecting himself from women, and the men who tweet in defence don’t even bother noticing the empty seats the rest of us can see.
🚨 NEW: All of Reform's 12 councils will raise council tax this year despite pledging not to in campaigns
Some of the planned rises include:
Worcestershire - 10%
Derbyshire - 4.99%
West Northamptonshire - 4.99%
Kent - 3.99%
Staffordshire - 3.99%
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You know who’s not in the Epstein files?
Undocumented immigrants.
Trans people.
Drag queens.
People who write books & create art with LGBTQ+ content.
It’s rich, powerful and mostly white men.
They want you to blame the “others” so you won’t blame them.
“AI isn’t going away.” “We need guns no matter how many shootings there are.” “Covid is here to stay.” None of you want better, do you? Do you realize none of this has to happen? All of this is preventable. We can all demand better and do better. None of this is inevitable.
you can go vegan, boycott AI, fast fashion, and plastic and only take the bus for the rest of your life and the US military will undo it all in like 30 minutes because they want Venezuela's oil