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September 2012
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“There’s a poisonous double standard in our society which says that it’s reverse-sexist and wrong for women to feel threatened by creepy-awkward male behaviour because our fear implies that we hold the negative, stereotypical view that All Men Are Predators, but that if we’re raped or sexually assaulted by any man with whom we’ve had prior social interaction – and particularly if he’s expressed some sexual or romantic interest in us during that time – it’s reasonable for observers to ask what precautions we took to prevent the assault from happening, or to suggest that we maybe led the guy on by not stating our feelings plainly. The result is a situation where women are punished if we reject, avoid or identify creepy men, and then told it’s our fault if we’re assaulted by someone we plainly ought to have rejected, avoided, identified.”
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The Creepiness Question « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows (via sacet)
Seriously, the amount of times this has happened to me is too high to count. The funny part is that it’s not like men are going after women they consider creepy. They wouldn’t give them a second glance, they call them crazy, stalkers, or worse. And then of course the flipside of “well you should have known” he would have been a predator.
(via wretchedoftheearth)
