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for fucks sake youre annoying. Get over yourself.
Noones calling you a rapist. Theyre saying you have the potential to rape. You do. That doeswnt mean you ever will. You probably wont.
To expect someone else, particularly a stranger who has suffered previous terrible sexual abuse and assault on several occasions to just trust everyone because you are so damn insistent, is ridiculous and really a bit cuntish.
As for your other argument, I'm sure that everyone has the potential to be something that they think they aren't. Ten years ago I didn't think I would be capable of being a mother. But I am now. You don't know what events may / may not happen in the future that will redefine what you are / are not capable of. At the end of the day you have a penis and know how to use it (I assume). For that reason you don't know what you could do with it in 10 /20 / whatever years time. I'm not saying you will rape, but the potential is there if the circumstances arise. Simple as.
I don't think that that's sensible at all. I think that that's a very unfortunate way to live one's life. Fearing the worst of everyone else simply breeds distrust. I can understand that some people end up that way through their own experiences, but to then suggest that everyone else should be equally wary is, I think, not the direction we as a people should go.
What if I'm disabled from the waist down and have no sexual function. Do I still have the potential?
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Thanks, you're perhaps the most arrogant and ignorant object I've ever encountered on the internet but hell, we all have our crosses to bear.
No I fucking don't.
That's very big of you.
I'll tell you what is a bit 'cuntish', is you saying I'm asking her to trust me. Want to point out where I did that or is putting words in my mouth just that much easier?
I haven't asked anyone to trust me because that's not the way I work. To be honest I'm not all that bothered whether anyone trusts me or not and that's not why I'm posting.
If somebody feels the best way they can deal with a traumatic experience is to have a defensive attitude of "all men are potential rapists" then I'd never deny them that. However the moment you go public with such an awful statement people are going to call you out on it and you should NOT act surprised. Like my earlier analogy if I was mugged by a black man then went public with "all black men are potential muggers" then I'm sure I'd (rightly) get ripped a new one for it.
Thank you. Faith in humanity restored.
Are we agreed that not all men are potential rapists?
Youre right. And im sorry I didnt realise your friend who worked in the supermarket who was innapropriate with a customer was paraplegic and therefore the customer should have not felt threatened at all as disabled people are incapable of abuse.
To most people it means jack shit.
Rapists say they aren't rapists. Non-rapists say they aren't rapists. What makes you different?
And yes we all have the potential to murder and cheat too.
That's true, we're all individuals at the end of the day, with our own experiences, thoughts and feelings. What one person sees as appropriate another wouldn't.
Still sounds like a misunderstanding to me.
In response to the original bit; I wouldn't have complained (but I am a man if that makes a difference).
One 'popular' non-scientific observation is that if you are an unattractive guy and ask someone out it is creepy and/or stalkerish, whereas if you are attractive or charismatic its quite endearing even if they do not want to date you.
I've certainly asked girls out at high school, received a no, and had their friends ask me to stop stalking them afterwards despite me not maintaining any contact after that.
So I think my conclusion is that sometimes its not whether the -act- itself was inappropriate or the individual had bad meaning, but whether it was perceived that way. And at work I don't think that's a risk worth taking. Fwiw, I've been subject to 'sexual harassment' at work (bum slaps!) but at the time laughed it off. She apologised later in the day and said she got carried away as people were being silly and I told her not to sweat it, but I did think later that the same -action- in a different context could very easily have cost someone their career.
Food for thought.