Imagine feeling safe and vulnerable enough with a man to open up about your sexual abuse trauma, only for him to sneeringly dismiss and publicly mock you because you shortened the phrase “the guy who raped me” to “my rapist”, and from your honest suffering and shame, he spins a lurid cuckold fantasy of sexual dispossession. Then thousands of men join him.
The comments under that video are exactly why so many women are terrified of men with authority. A woman gets beaten on camera and instead of questioning the excessive force, people are fantasizing about hurting her more. Society keeps proving that the second a woman is seen as “difficult” or “disobedient,” empathy disappears and violence suddenly becomes acceptable.