Ladies, parents of girls, friends and lovers of women...

[labelleizzy]

How children are raised is how they behave when under stress.

For instance, attempted rape or sexual harassment.

Trigger warning, but I wanted to boost this signal because she hits the nail on the head about what happened for me with my own date rape in college.

Read the comment strand too.

a follow up which I found quite educational: Who FB friends your rapist? Assholes who aren't really friends to you.

Comments

[celticmoni.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this.

It's so true. My best friend and I use to go to a local bar to sing karaoke together. Once there was this asshole guy who wouldn't take no for an answer, and insisted on joining us at our table. I was about to tell him off, but she was all, "oh, there's no harm in it. we don't want to be rude", etc etc. Eventually our guy friends showed up, and were all polite and smooth in getting him to leave. It kinda pissed me off that he wouldn't listen to my "no thanks" or her more subtle hints, but when the male types backed us up, he good naturedly bowed out.

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I was half expecting our guy friends to flat out piss on us at that point, it was so primal and territorial...