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Fraternity men are 3x more likely to commit a sexual assault during college than other college men. Most violence is concentrated in the wealthiest, most powerful fraternities—which also have the highest representation in Congress, SCOTUS, and the presidency.

according to the jewish right and most christians, the most antisemitic thing you can possibly do is be jewish in a way they don't approve of

Women are made to feel like conspiracy theorists if we point out that a lot of men quick to defend rapists sound like rapists themselves. But the research is clear: rapists travel in packs. And that means that a lot of the time, the friend of the rapist is also a rapist.

It’s always ACAB with a certain sort until a man gets accused of rape and then it’s “why didn’t she file a police report.”

People are debating whether Platner belongs to the dirtbag left or the normie libs, and that's not the axis on which this revolves. He was backed by guys who thought "identity politics" was Mommy trying to make them take their diarrhea medicine, and that's a broad swath with members in both camps.

I need certain white leftists/liberals to realize that it is not "just" white Jews who are at risk from Nazis, and it is not "only" white Jews who object to giving power to people with Nazi tattoos.

Pro tip: If you can't condemn Graham Platner without somehow bringing AIPAC into it, I'm going to assume that the tattoo is one of the reasons you liked him in the first place.

I think framing the debate over who was supporting Planter as liberals vs leftists is just getting it completely wrong it was both liberal and leftist men! It's now liberal, leftist, and right wing dudes doing the apologism!!! The common denominator is men!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I actually do think that women who cheerfully and enthusiastically supported a man who referred to them as "hatchet wounds" lack a certain degree of self-respect.

Me Too did not go far enough.

Because they expected you to have shame and drop out before it came to this!

Women often downplay sexual violations when we’re assaulted by men we know. We say it was a bad hookup, an uncomfortable sexual experience, it was our fault. That we do this doesn’t mean we weren’t assaulted. It means it’s difficult to admit a man we trusted did this

I’m taking note of who’s making excuses for a rapist and I’ll hate you until my dying fucking breaths btw

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And if you supported him until Monday, you should do some serious soul searching about why your instincts were so poor, why you were so willing to overlook his misogyny, and what that says about your values.

Graham Platner is a bad person and a rapist. The people supporting him are bad people. Their “movement” is a cult of personality. They DO NOT CARE about defeating Susan Collins. Progressivism that platforms rapists & rape apologists will not make this world safer for most of us.

Male brains and female brains are all just human brains.

A lot of the people posting terrible takes about sexual violence victims know they’re wrong. It is an expression of solidarity with perpetrators, who tend to occupy higher positions of power, versus victims, who tend to be disempowered. Sometimes it is because they are perpetrators, too.

This is a reminder that a lot of survivors (very reasonably) log off when the discourse gets too toxic. That’s a big part of why day two is always worse than day one. It isn’t that public opinion is shifting, it’s that the rape apologists dominate the space through violent rhetoric and harassment.

Rape apologists have a caricature in their heads about how victims “should react” or try to prevent violence. None of them map onto real victims’ behavior. All of them are a distraction from the perpetrator’s behavior—which should be the real object of scrutiny.

In my research, I’ve reviewed cases where perpetrators were offered impunity because: - The victim was polite to the perpetrator the next day - The victim‘s socks were found at the crime scene - There were “too many victims” - The victim withdrew consent “too early” in the evening

One of the findings in my research is that there is never enough evidence to satisfy people who want to offer a perpetrator impunity. They can always dream up a new way to blame the victim—and ignore all the other damning, relevant evidence by cherry picking some small detail that shouldn’t matter.

The point I was making: Many people are allergic to empathizing with survivors of sexual violence and it manifests in many ways, inc. wishing that allegations are false or by prioritizing their posts not getting deleted over respecting the tools survivors have to protect themselves

i said the guy's nazi tattoo means he's either a terrible person or a giant fucking idiot, both of which are disqualifying, and a common response i received was, "you're a zionist stooge." the segment of the left that behaves that way will never ever reflect on it and change.

And that conversation is over now because the rapists won. And if you every bring it up, you will be shouted down and a reference will be made to any of the villainized women of the gamergate era—WHO WERE RIGHT AND WE KNOW THEY WERE RIGHT BECAUSE THE RAPISTS WON

leftism and centrism are plagued by the exact same misogyny and antisemitism as any other segment of society theyre just more in denial about it

Doesn't seem like a great long-term strategy for the Democratic Party to become more and more reliant on a mostly female voting base and then demand that base put their time and energy into promoting male politicians who harm women.

Needed this today

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I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

If you're a dude and you think you have a clever joke to offer about a woman's rape: no you do not

White men are so consistently aggressive online. It's incredible.

The argument, always, is not over whether rape happens. Everyone knows that it happens all the time. The argument is over whether rape is morally serious. A lot of people do not think that it is, and they would be more honest if they said so.

It's tedious to have to litigate every disclosure of sexual violence against a powerful or hell even not-powerful man in terms of "credibility" and "corroboration," when everyone knows that what's at stake is not whether the specific allegation is true but whether it matters.

Time to repost Sara Ahmed’s essay about how the language of carcerality is misapplied to any attempt to hold a perpetrator accountable—or deny him more power.

Just thinking this morning about how many women are forced to serve up the most intimate and horrible moments of their pasts because people blast through a veritable thicket of red flags in support of a political candidate, and in retaliation, they are smeared and harassed.

periodically american media are forced to throw a rapist to the wolves to satisfy all those pesky girls but doing so doesn’t come naturally to them, and certainly isn’t indicative of a big dramatic turning point in their ongoing contempt for women

I don’t want to hear any BS from anybody saying “Platner was the liberals’ fault” or “he was the left’s fault.” I’ve been yelled at by plenty from across the lib/left spectrum for opposing Platner. There was widespread denial of the obvious asshattery of this man.

a victim's statement is evidence.

I think it’s bad for it to be genuinely unsafe for young women on the left from Maine to get involved with government work by interning or working for their senator! And then consider the compounding impact on career trajectory.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

If you need to read the gory details of a woman’s violent assault in order to believe her - especially about someone who has mountains of evidence against them already - then I’ve got some news for you about your support of women…

No one remembers this anymore I guess but there was an entire movement of women staffers from the Bernie 2016 campaign who organized on the eve of the 2020 campaign to beg Bernie to take a proactive stance against the systemic sexual misconduct they'd experienced on the 2016 campaign

Reminder: there is no excuse for smearing women who come forward about sexual assault. It doesn’t make you righteous because you agree politically with the abuser.

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Men will literally run for the United States senate instead of going to Alcoholics Anonymous.

Sounds like the annoying and shrill pro-DEI ladies who said that perhaps running someone who in adulthood knowingly had Nazi tattoos inked to their body was not a great idea were right...