After CSA

A painting of a bird beside the text "Someday, somewhere, someone will truly understand just how fucked up this was"

Poor rapists are getting away with it too. Pretty much all rapists are getting away with it. Ask a survivor.

Also, "underage women" isn't a thing. If they're under age, they're not women. That's what under age literally means.

In an attempt to absolve themselves of responsibility, those involved are trying to introduce consent where consent could simply not be present.

These girls were not adults. They were girls. Words mean things.

Why don't they say anything?

Well, because when it happens to YOU, if you say something, that's frequently the ballgame. You get driven out of your community; you get to see what the people you thought loved you look like with the masks off. And way, way too many of them are monsters.

We say "believe women" and "oh but his books are so important" in the same breath. "Believe women" and "that fourteen-year-old led him on, he's a genius, we need him." "Believe woman" and "we prefer the wolf."

Too often I hear that the answer to sexual violence is for more victims to report it and speak up, but when they do so, they are denied justice and punished. That is not the answer, it is the problem.

We cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.

lol the claim that Black people can't be honest about anti-Black racism is ultimately projection and paternalistic.

Not only are you downplaying how anti-Black racism impacts my life, but you're also saying my Black identity makes it harder to understand my BLACK experience, which is FALSE.

Five cats stand on their hind legs. Text reads: "we all stood up to look at you".

The observers.

That’s where I am landing, mostly.

A sketch of dinosaur with being sliced by something unseen through the connecting tissue and bones separating the upper part of the head and skull from the rest of the body with the words "Shut Up" written underneath.

A doodle apropos of nothing in particular.

"You Can Run, But We'll Find You" by Matchbook Romance

"The World Does Not Revolve Around You" by temposhark

yes, "predators are drawn to environments that allow them access to minors" is not the same as "everyone interacting with minors is a predator"

Yeah, that’s the thing. I knew a lot of girls who were shy, quiet, and pretty but not conventionally beautiful, who were abused. Because abuse is often about access.

Odd how so many people who argued trans people are corrupting children happen to be in the Epstein Files.

Huh.

Rape isn’t about sex. It’s about power. The power they get off on isn’t going to be found in a consensual relationship.

Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.

He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.

Seriously because look at your personal contribution to rape culture, it doesn't get fixed until everyone in society gets that we all have a choice to uphold it or not.

Bruh, wtf — maybe go to X?

A 16 year old is still developmentally and legally a child. Calling them “young women” softens what was done and makes exploitation sound consensual. Predators target teens precisely because they are easier to manipulate and abuse, not because they’re somehow adults.

it is in fact "technically pedophilia," using the common colloquial meaning of the word.

someone loudly fixating on definitions in a clearly *colloquial* conversation about *not raping minors*? red flag.

These taboos exist because identifying those who break them and forcibly removing them from your community is crucial to our survival as a species.

There are lots of cases of people, mainly men, who aren’t particularly intelligent or capable but benefit from the existence of rape and abuse culture simply because they recognize you can

Screenshots from Fallout showing Lucy, along with the words “One side is murdering people, enslaving them, crucifying them, and the other side is just vaguely problematic.”

yeah, so Fallout nailed it

one thing you never want to have to realize is that you were really underestimating the number of pedophiles

When I was working with DV victims in crisis situations where I had to get them and their kids to a safe place or else I had to take their kids to foster care, the most effective question I asked was, "Would he keep doing that if the cops were watching?"

They are never out of control

the correct response to "turns out they were right about that thing all along" isn't "whew! good thing I understand now."

the correct response is is "wait, what else were they right about?"

Why don’t they just name names?

Why didn’t she go to the police?

Where were her parents?

Why was she alone with him?

This is what sexual assault survivors have to go through.

No one asks why the man chose to rape or why rapists aren’t punished.

The victims are blamed.

The right wing numpties are crying "this is Censorship!" over Grok.

Our reply should be: "Yes. Exactly. It's Censorship. Of Child Sexual Material. Censorship of CSM is a very good thing."

The media needs to take these free speech absolutists to task on the material limits of their beliefs.

It's uncomfortable to unpack your privilege, but it's more uncomfortable to be oppressed. Most white people can't manage the relatively minor discomfort of coming to terms with whiteness in order to ease the burden on the oppressed. It's pretty pathetic.