No one actually wants proof someone was raped or assaulted because they’re willing to give men the benefit of the doubt in literally every microform that they can. If a woman’s assault was taped someone would say footage was manipulated, “that her body said yes,” that she didn’t resist enough, that she didn’t scream, that she didn’t fight. There are no ethical or moral bounds with which people won’t cross to denounce the totality of women’s sexual brutalization
You know I thought about it some more and honestly believe that even if a man were willing to acknowledge a woman was raped or assaulted he would do everything in his power to downplay this crime in every way he could. To be perfectly clear I 100% believe Republicans would continue to vote Kavanaugh in even if there was irrefutable proof that he assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. In fact some Republican women are saying just that.
The root of the matter is when undeniably confronted with women’s sexual brutalization, people repeatedly choose to look the other way, because they don’t care about women
That last quote from the clipped article is chilling, because sexual assault is so normalized that even some women will totally dismiss it.
I knew men in college that didn’t know a woman couldn’t consent when drunk and openly admitted (angrily) that they never had consentual sex if that were true (it is). They believed that this is just the way things were. I knew women who thought that, too, and they didn’t realize they were survivors themselves.
Men refuse to accept that these thing consititute rape and sexual assault because it means that they themselves are rapists. It is a defense mechanism at best and outright malicious behavior at worst
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