ext_13364 ([identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] swan_tower 2012-08-23 06:47 pm (UTC)

Re: Very personal.

It wasn't exactly rape, because I said 'oh, all right' under the pressure.

This is a good example of a grey zone. You did, in fact, consent -- but your consent wasn't freely given, and when all's said and done, what that guy did wasn't right. The remedy for something like that isn't, I think, to try to pursue it as a legal matter (even if we lived in a world that handled rape prosecutions better); what we need are better social sanctions that tell people it isn't okay to do that.

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