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In reply to the discussion: Of bears and men: How big does a risk have to be before you "have to" walk around scared? [View all]NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Because it's not simply the risk of sexual assault we must deal with, but also the fact that, if it does happen, we, not the rapists, receive the blame when we're raped. We always do. No matter what we do to protect ourselves, any deviation from doing the utmost not to be raped will have us blamed for it. So we have to brace ourselves for the worst, because if we don't, well, we were asking for it, right?
You obviously haven't faced that. Every rape victim has, including this one.
You need to listen to us for a change, rather than telling us whether or not we have a reason to brace ourselves for an assault. We do it because we can't win, no matter what we do. If we listen to clueless idiots who dismiss our concerns like you have, we get trashed when we're raped for not doing enough to prevent it, and if we do prepare and get raped, anyway, we get trashed for 'asking for it,' because we obviously did something to get raped.
Sit this one out, kemosabe. You're way out of your depth here.
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