- Making rape jokes. Examples: ‘rape is just a struggle snuggle’ or ‘it’s not rape if you say surprise first’ or ‘if you rape a prostitute, is it rape or shoplifting’ or ANY OTHER RAPE JOKE.
- Calling situations that are nothing like rape rape. Examples: ‘that math test totally raped my ass’ or ‘the IRS really raped me this year’ or ‘i would absolutely rape something to eat right now’.
- Questioning survivors. Examples: ‘are you sure you didn’t just change your mind in the morning?’ or ‘I don’t think it’s rape if he’s your boyfriend’ or ‘are you just saying that so you won’t be called a slut?’
- Talking about rape as a positive. Example: ‘I would love to get raped by a hot girl’ or ‘I wish [insert attractive female celebrity here] would rape me’,
- Pantomiming rape. For some reason, the guys at my school think it is the absolute height of humor to sneak up on each other and simulate humping one another while yelling ‘rape!’. PRO TIP: It isn’t funny at all and it makes you look like a complete and total asshole.
- Calling all physical contact rape. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen (usually, but not always) guys at my school engage in minor physical contact like accidentally bumping someone in the hallway or seen two of them wrestling, and one or both will start laughing and screaming “RAPE! RAPE! HE’S RAPING ME!”
This is obviously a very incomplete list, so please feel free to add your own.
PS- If you do any of this stuff, you are an asshole and you need to stop right now
18/NYC/Pescatarian. Currently undercover as a Buffalonian. Writer. Poet. Dreamer. Lover. Thinker. Rhetor. Hopeful veterinarian. Athazagoraphobe. Completely insane fangirl. Slash writer. Moose. Shipper of Everyone/Everyone. Gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. I enjoy saving people, hunting things; The family business. I left my riding crop in the mortuary. My timey-wimey detector goes ding when there's stuff. I have a power ring and I'm not afraid to use it. Also, I know the words to far more Disney songs than I'm willing to admit. Never learned to ride a bike, but I can do long division like nobody's business. Can't swim, can't dance, don't know karate. But that's quite alright, because I don't wanna make it. I just wanna.











