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[-] Wahots@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

it did not matter if the woman initiated...

At risk of sounding stereotypically queer, the whole gender norms and roles thing between straight people just sounds so insanely outdated each year that passes. Yes, 1 in 4 women are SA at the college I attended. But there was also the statistic that 1 in 10 men are also SA. That's a hell of a lot of people in a class of 30, for both statistics. And that was info distributed in 2023.

I've heard of friends of friends (men) getting held down and raped by other people in a hotel hallway and being too afraid to get tested, call the police, or even come forward because they are so fearful of being accused of being gay and then being ostracized by society. Being victims of SA is an equal opportunity event. It feels so odd that in the straight world, things still seem so...one dimensional. It can (and does) happen to anyone. It feels like everyone is just holding their breath while crazy, horrible stuff happens.

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

I'm largely straight (hetero flexible tends to be what I'd say if you asked) and I agree that the straights are not ok ๐Ÿ˜‚

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