privilaged bes likely never have had a rape threat in their goddamn lives)
I’m sure most of us are thinking….I FUCKING WISH
D’you know what I am a pretty privileged woman, I know that, I’m white, middle class, educated, high earner, well travelled. Really a very lucky woman and I appreciate that. None of that has stopped me suffering multiple sexual assaults and abuse in my life though, physical violence including an assault from a stranger in public in daylight (he was convicted, there was CCTV and witnesses). Also including, by the way, a sexual assault by a man identifying as a woman in order to gain access to women alone in a state of undress (I didn’t have the courage to report. I knew it wouldn’t go anywhere with no witnesses, and I’d just be accused of transphobia for making the complaint).
I fucking wish I’d never even had a rape threat in my life. I don’t know a single woman who has never suffered abuse from a man in some form or other, most people you have this conversation with have experienced more than they remember.
These kids have no idea, because they are not female, and have no experience or understanding of what women go through, of what the vast majority of women go through and is considered entirely unremarkable and ordinary in our society.