Robert McCarthy is Fully Vaccinated #GetVaccinated
6 Jul,
6 tweets, 2 min read
A question for men who insist on derailing women's posts about sexual assault, rape, harassment, abuse, and the like: Do you laugh at rape jokes? Do you MAKE rape jokes? Do you call it out when you hear or read a rape joke, particularly when it's your guy buddy that makes it?
Or do you let it slide because a woman's discomfort is more acceptable to you than potentially causing a divide in your friendship with your good buddy? Are you willing to risk your relationship with that guy to help make women feel seen, heard, and safe?
If you do laugh at rape jokes, if you do make rape jokes, if you don't call them out when you hear or read them, if you put your friendship with your guy buddies that tell rape jokes ahead of the safety and well being (physical, emotional, and mental) of women, then you ARE one
those men. Not raping women, not laughing at rape jokes, and not making rape jokes, is the bare minimum. This is what you're SUPPOSED to do. You don't get a reward for that. There's no Ferrari or Lamborghini waiting for you behind the curtain for doing the bare minimum, as if
this is some damn game show. This is not. This is real life. Rape and rape jokes are real. Until you start calling out rape and rape jokes, until you put women's well being ahead of your relationships with other men, then it is all men, and we all need to stop being a part of the
problem, and become a part of the solution. Because you know what? "Not all men" are calling rape jokes out. And we need to. How's that for "not all men" for you?
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