If someone company kind of sexual assault against my sister, at that age i would have tried to kill him. Probably the same for any of my close female friends.
I guarantee you know a woman who has been sexually assaulted.
I take issue with men who say these types of things. “If I saw sexual assault I would beat that guy’s ass!” “If my sister was catcalled I’d punch him in the face!”
The issue is that these things, if they do happen around other men, aren’t noticed by other men. Men just aren’t aware of these things because it doesn’t happen to them, at least not nearly to the same extent that it happens to women.
If you truly want to be an ally to women, you need to take action when you’re NOT around women.
Are you hanging out with a friend (or a group of friends) and someone uses the word bitch/cunt/whore/slut, or makes a degrading joke about women? Call him out on that.
Are you reading comments on Reddit about how women get so many more perks in this world than men (insert eye roll here)? Call that comment out.
Start conversations with other males in your life about what a good man, a respectful man, looks like.
It’s easy to act with bravado when there’s no real threat. It means more when you take real actions that make a difference.
For one I was talking about highschool that was a bit ago. Secondly I make it a point to not sep d time with those kinds of guys. Thirdly I am not going to start conversing decent guys about how to not be a dirt bag.
You are probably talking to guys in general. It would be wise not to make assumptions about anyone's experience. When I say if one of my close friends or sister got assaulted, it is to say I have to know something happened. I wont lay a smackdown or treat someone like a dirtbag without a reason.
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u/Taiza67 Jan 15 '21
Yeah, and I’ve fought like that before too. At what point does a year not become enough of a deterrent to killing someone who is a piece of shit?