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In reply to the discussion: Dear DU Woman--stop throwing back shots of Rum and you won't get raped.... [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)take my chances and live in freedom, rather than be dominated and controlled by the threat and fear of men.
The real feminist message is pleading with men to: Stop the violence, and help other men get their shit together and end the rape consciousness, so women don't have to worry about being assaulted every time we walk down a dark street at night.
So, like, what causes the rapist consciousness anyway? Could it be...
patriarchy?
Fuck anybody who thinks it is some natural condition of human females in the world that I should live in fear and not enjoy the same freedoms as men simply because I am a woman.

Damn it, do people think that females are so clueless that we are not aware, after having lived long enough to be of or near drinking age, that we don't understand that we increase our chances of a man raping us if we are drunk?
Try to fix the problem instead of insisting that we limit our freedom due to our gender, because too many men believe they have some unspoken natural right to assault and rape women. What the fuck is that all about?
Daddy: "Don't drink too much, little Suzy, because if you do, some bad man might come along and rape you."
Little Suzy: "But why would some bad man do that, daddy?"
Daddy: "Because that's just the way things are for little girls who live in patriarchal societies, little Suzy."
Little Suzy: "Thank you, daddy, I love you, but fuck that. I cannot live my life and not do the things I want to do because men make me afraid to do them."
Daddy: "But baby, you're just a girl...