April 24th “trend”

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teaandcustardcreamsx · 19/04/2021 07:55

Just had my friends message me that there’s a trend on TikTok that men are planning a “national rape day” on April 24th 🤬 as apparently it’s ‘legal’ to sexually assault someone on that day. AIBU to be absolutely fed up with men and all of this shit?!

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BathshebaKnickerStickers · 19/04/2021 07:58

Only mention of this I’ve seen is on a massive Q-Anon Conspiracy theorist Facebook feed so I’m pretty certain it’s not a thing. The conspiracy theorists want to make it seem like a thing.

B33Fr33 · 19/04/2021 08:00

Can it be legal chop a dick off day as well then?

Ginuwine · 19/04/2021 08:02

@teaandcustardcreamsx

I'd be more fed up of TikTok, rumour mills and "shocking" posts, and social media causing "outrage".

The six men (if you can even call them that word) who posted on TikTok about this are the worst attention seekers ever. They were hoping that thousands of young feminist and outraged users of the platform would then post reactionary ones declaiming theirs.

They've got exactly the attention they sought, they are probably getting some bizarre and horrible thrill out of the notoriety.

But it's the same principle as the fools who go on Instagram and post monkey symbols at famous professional Black footballers who performed poorly (in their opinion that weekend.

Is it racism? Of course. Is it designed mainly for attention seeking in order to hit national news? Absolutely.

And what I find dreadful now (as a mixed race person myself) is how every time a player receives abuse it makes headlines. It isn't changing anything. If anything it's actually causing more attention seekers to pile on whenever they can.

Ginuwine · 19/04/2021 08:03

@BathshebaKnickerStickers

Only mention of this I’ve seen is on a massive Q-Anon Conspiracy theorist Facebook feed so I’m pretty certain it’s not a thing. The conspiracy theorists want to make it seem like a thing.

Exactly this.

It isn't a "thing". But the more people write about it, shout outrage and wave their hands.. it becomes a thing even if it wasn't.z

Smurfsarethefuture · 19/04/2021 10:27

@Ginuwine

If anything it's actually causing more attention seekers to pile on whenever they can.

There’s a reason some things aren’t reported in the news, isn’t there? There’s evidence that with some crimes, news coverage increases the incidences by giving this publicity/attention.

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