The NotRape that is a form of sexual assault that becomes "okay". ... Or the guy who calls us names, either to our face, or to his friends, for getting angry at this behaviour.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure my brother wouldn't rape or physically assault a woman. I'm dead certain he'd stand aside, silent, while misogynist jokes are told, and a girl who objects to those jokes is called a prude and a bitch by a pack of boys. I know this because that was an on-going part of our shared teenagehood - his asshole friends making nasty cracks about women in my hearing, me calling them on it, and them escalating to calling me names. He didn't join in (at least where I could hear him), but he sure as hell didn't defend me, and his view of each event after the fact was that I had embarrassed him in front of his friends.That is, in fact, still his view, 10-15 years later. Someone I love and generally want to think of as a good person still thinks that when women are calling men on misogynist speech and behavior, the problem is that the women are making a
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Or the guy who calls us names, either to our face, or to his friends, for getting angry at this behaviour.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure my brother wouldn't rape or physically assault a woman. I'm dead certain he'd stand aside, silent, while misogynist jokes are told, and a girl who objects to those jokes is called a prude and a bitch by a pack of boys. I know this because that was an on-going part of our shared teenagehood - his asshole friends making nasty cracks about women in my hearing, me calling them on it, and them escalating to calling me names. He didn't join in (at least where I could hear him), but he sure as hell didn't defend me, and his view of each event after the fact was that I had embarrassed him in front of his friends.That is, in fact, still his view, 10-15 years later. Someone I love and generally want to think of as a good person still thinks that when women are calling men on misogynist speech and behavior, the problem is that the women are making a ( ... )
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