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I was invited by the Royal Military College in '15 to train their cadets on bystander intervention to end sexual violence & they harassed me the whole time, sent me threats when I reported it & it was a national news story that brought on more death threats.

I told you.
PROFOUNDLY uninterested in seeing people defend RMC period but particularly, defending the dudebro culture at RMC as "boys will be boys".

The year I was there, they had 3 sexual assaults & 2 suicides.

RMC needs to be demolished & rebuilt from scratch.
"Boys will be boys" is misandry.

It shows you have no respect for men, think they are all animals & that they cannot be tamed.

If you say "Boys will be boys" it's because you hate boys. Period.
I am SO sick of this disastrous merry-go-round of every few years, having to remind people that the military has a problem, having to endure another wave of threats from military people, having to flay my story again and again for people to listen.

Your ignorance is a choice.
I have an entire chapter in my book about it. Read it.

I have done NUMEROUS interviews, in both official languages. Google it.

Stop coming to my door, all aghast that RMC has a problem with sexual violence & toxic masculinity. I am well aware, thanks!
My book literally includes a copy of a detailed threat I received from a man who told me to kill myself & that hating me wasn't misogyny because I'm not a woman, I am human garbage.

He signed it with his full name & address & police refused to act.

I have gone over this, folks.
And I truly hate how arrogant this sounds but JUST GOOGLE ME.

Instead of asking me to explain to you for the umpteenth time how bad the Royal Military College is, just Google me. It's literally the first thing that comes up. (Sadly.)

Or buy my book! Do your damn research!
CORRECTION : Minor one but I actually went to RMC October 2014 but the story came out the spring of 2015 with the Justice Deschamps report.

I've been having to rehash that fateful day for 7 goddamn years. Je suis le tired.

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