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Originally Posted by thirtiesgirl
You can insist this is true all you like. In fact, the more you insist, the more suspicious you become. If you're a guy I don't know, approaching me to talk, or a guy I don't know contacting me on FB, I'm not a mind reader and have no idea what your intentions are. With rape statistics being so high and rape culture the norm in our society, it makes nothing but sense for me to be suspicious of your intentions and/or expect you to leave me alone.
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Maybe this is why I'm so sexually passive. I've never actually seduced anyone before. I've always let women come to me. Do you think this is preferable? Say, men being sexually inert until women give the right messages to suggest they should be otherwise?
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Originally Posted by thirtiesgirl
Let me amend this to read, "men should always act with the understanding that everything they do can be construed as they might potentially sexually assault a woman, especially a woman who doesn't know them well, or at all."
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By the way, you won't need to amend it because I would say the intention to commit sexual assault falls under miscreant intentions.
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