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JackTheBandit  ·  3772 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your Friends and Rapists

I was actually reading for the same thing. She never addressed a very very fair point. [As a Black male of Afro-Caribbean descent] I was always trained to be aware of my environment, all the things in all the varieties that it encompasses. I also have multiple sisters and extended family members and don't remember a similar conversation happening.

Even listening to tales of female peers; it seems that most have a fucked up sexual experience at some point in their lives, and they expected someone else to respond on their behalf after the fact moreso than avoiding it in the first place [in cases of date rape.]

So maybe the answer is something like, men need to be taught how to address their urges properly and women need to be taught how to protect themselves in the same way men are.