DON’T RAPE HER [TW: Rape]

[Trigger Warning: Rape/Sexual assault]

A lot has been said to women about how to prevent being raped;

1. Women should learn self-defense.
2. Women should lock themselves in their houses after dark.
3. Women shouldn’t have long hair.
   
4. Women shouldn’t go out alone at night.
5. Women shouldn’t have too many men as friends.
6. Women shouldn’t sit alone anywhere; to have dinner, coffee, lunch.
7. Women shouldn’t trust any man they meet.
8. Women should never go to a bar by themselves or go home with a person they didn’t arrive with.
   
9. Women shouldn’t wear short skirts.
10. Women shouldn’t leave drinks unattended.
11. Fuck, they shouldn’t dare to get drunk at all.

Instead of that complete, utter bullshit, this is what needs to be said to all:

• If a woman is drunk,don’t rape her.

• If a woman is walking alone at night,don’t rape her.

• If a women is drugged and unconscious,don’t rape her.

• If a woman is wearing a short skirt, don’t rape her.

• If a woman is jogging in a park at 5 am, don’t rape her.

• If a woman looks like the ex-girlfriend you’re still hung up on, don’t rape her.

• If a woman is asleep in her bed, don’t rape her.

• If a woman is asleep in your bed, don’t rape her.

• If a woman is doing her laundry, don’t rape her.

• If a woman is in a coma, don’t rape her.

• If a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don’t rape her.

• If a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don’t rape her.

• If a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don’t rape her.

• If your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don’t rape her.

• If your step-daughter or daughter is watching tv, don’t rape her.

• If a woman is being raped in a public place, don’t join in, call the police immediately.

• If a woman hasn’t said “Yes”, don’t rape her.

• If a woman isn’t interested in you, don’t rape her.

• If a woman is your girlfriend or wife you do not own her, so don’t rape her.

• If a woman is a virgin and isn’t ready, don’t rape her.

• If the condom breaks, stop. And don’t rape her.(Thank you, Quercki.)

• If in any of the above situations, the woman is not a woman, but a man or a boy, do not rape him either.
  

If your friend thinks it’s okay to rape someone, tell him it’s not, and that he’s not your friend.

If your ‘friend’ tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.

If your frat-brother or another man at a party tells you there’s an unconscious woman upstairs and It’s Your Turn, don’t rape her; call the police.

Tell your sons, god-sons, nephews, grandsons, sons of friends, friends, and any man you know – it is not, and never will be, okay to rape anyone.

• Don’t tell your women friends how to be ‘safe and avoid rape’.

• Don’t imply she could have ‘avoided it’ if she’d only ‘done/not done X’.

• Don’t imply it is in any way ‘her fault’.

• Don’t stay silent and imply complete agreement when someone tells you he ‘got some’ with the drunk girl.

• Do not perpetuate a culture telling rapists they have no control over their actions.

• Do Not perpetuate a culture telling the victim it is their fault because they should have/could have prevented being raped.
  

• Do Not perpetuate a culture of victim-blaming.

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