A male coworker asked me out. I told him I already had plans to watch football on Sunday. He smirked and said, “Women talk about football without even knowing what offside is.”
I smiled and replied, “Men talk about abortion without even having a uterus.” And believe me the conversation ended right there.
Calling rape ‘forced sex’ is just another way of watering down sexual violence. You wouldn’t call robbery ‘unwanted shopping,’ so stop dressing up serious crimes with softer words.
What is even more outrageous is him saying, “I thought you were a girl.” …..So girls are the ones meant to be touched without their consent? Men only seem to understand bodily autonomy when another man is involved, as if being a woman makes our consent matter less.