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cereta and yeloson get angry about rape.

You need to read this.

And then you need to read this.


Links via yeloson and karnythia

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[wulfsdottir.livejournal.com]

The thing is, if men try to let it be known that women are safe around them, all the women's alarm bells are going to go off. Nice Guys (tm) are not the same as actually nice guys, and we're conditioned that if they have to tell us how nice they are, they probably aren't. Nice Guys (tm) are the ones who typically try to use the fact that they thought about raping the girl but didn't in order to get the girl to put out in sheer gratitude for just how Nice a Guy he is, and then if she doesn't reward him with sexual favors, gets nasty about how she owes him for being a decent human being. Which he wasn't, he was just playing one to get laid.

What I primarily get from the first article, as a woman who has been sexually assaulted on more than one occasion, is that it would be good for Good Men to let other guys know that the Good Men will not put up with other men treating women like sex toys. The demonstration of honorable behavior needs to happen between men and men, not men and women -- men need to tell each other that it's not right to assault women, and that it is right to stop it when they see it happening, from inappropriate comments to a waitress all the way to a frat boy hauling a girl upstairs after slipping her a roofie.

I don't know if that helps clarify anything or not.