I'm not "afraid," but I am aware that despite my best judgment of a person, that person might nevertheless be a predator.
I keep thinking "this is derailing just as much as when I claimed my husband didn't have white privilege" because it's systemic, not individual.
I've never been raped, but my sister has, my mother was, one of my uncles was (as a child), and I've been verbally threatened with rape more than once, in the presence of people who did nothing about it, did nothing to shut that person up or get me to safety. And that is the problem under discussion: not whether women fear that men will rape them but that society doesn't take rape seriously as a systemic problem, it brushes it off as individual perversion.
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I keep thinking "this is derailing just as much as when I claimed my husband didn't have white privilege" because it's systemic, not individual.
I've never been raped, but my sister has, my mother was, one of my uncles was (as a child), and I've been verbally threatened with rape more than once, in the presence of people who did nothing about it, did nothing to shut that person up or get me to safety. And that is the problem under discussion: not whether women fear that men will rape them but that society doesn't take rape seriously as a systemic problem, it brushes it off as individual perversion.