[Serious] PSA: Rape Apologetics

[John 6IX Breezy]

Rape is a violent act. Ask a victim of a rape or an attempted rape how non-violent it is.

Did you read the quotations? The "rape as violence" narrative has caused many women who have been raped by acquaintances to not report it, and to even view it as "normal," precisely because they fall outside the stereotypic description of a violent stranger using force and weapons. 

Consider the following anecdote: "A New York City judge recommended leniency for a man who had forcibly sodomized a woman who had cognitive disabilities. Astonishingly, the judge said, 'there was no violence here'" (Matlin, 2012, p. 433). That is what happens when you require violence as a criteria for rape: It causes you to undermine the vast number of cases, from statutory rape to date rape, from intoxication to unconsciousness, which do not always align with the violence stereotype.

Reference: Matlin, M. I. (2012). The psychology of women. Wadsworth Publishing: Belmont, California.