Make the right choices and be safe.

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i want women's equal rights so I can finally live my pipe dream of being a stay at home trophy dad while my attractive as **** lawyer/doctor wife can go work and pay the bills (they may as well be involved with the working portion over me since male lifespan is shorter right? )

are you into domination? you sound like you'd love to be The Gimp from Pulp Fiction. Just tie you up and throw you in a box until someone's horny enough to bring you out as their sex slave and use you, then put you back in.

Why it is problematic to give a list of things women can do to avoid being raped: because as much as people like this YouTuber assert, it shifts some of the blame to the victim.

It is not illegal for me to keep my door unlocked; it is always illegal for a burglar to enter my home. Regardless of whether or how I keep my home secure, the only time my property is stolen is if someone enters it without my permission and takes things without my permission.

But not only that, in the case of rape what is at stake is far more fundamental than taking worldly possessions. Further, telling people that they have to dress a certain way (or learn a martial art or ... or) for their own good is requiring a victim to change their perfectly acceptable, legal and free choices when you could spend your energy telling rapists not to rape.

Gah. Spend my energy telling a rapist not to rape? I have like...monstrous amounts of energy and telling a rapist not to rape is a waste of time. I can, however, tell my friends to take up a martial art. Not only will you be able to (maybe) kick an unarmed (lol) rapist's ass, but you can learn a lot about yourself through a martial art.

I totally get that its infuriating that rapists get to dictate how we live our short lives. So I guess we shouldn't devote our life to not being raped? Because when we inevitably are raped, despite learning every martial art on the planet and devoting ourselves to archery and shooting targets with handguns and assault rifles and dressing like we're from the north pole, it will all be for not?

You can completely live your life in america without ever owning a gun. Because there are those that do, and hopefully when someone decides to shoot up a movie theater that mother****er is there to save your bitch ass. He took the time and probably ****ing loved devoting his time to learn how to save someone. Anyone. Maybe no one, but he tried. So learning a martial art is suuuuuuuuuch a waste of time.

Blah blah blah. Anyway...

My point is its less of a waste of time to try and protect yourself than to say "**** it, i'm gonna get raped anyway no matter what I do. If someone wants to rape me, they will." You protecting yourself means you're also protecting everything you stand for. Everything you believe in as a person. Every yoga class you took and book you read on how to be intellectual and critically think. You will then also be protecting your children and passing on your beliefs and hopefully that is a belief that raping someone isn't a good ****ing thing to do.