Rape train game

Attending a women's college - Mt. One friendsgiving at Mt. Holyoke, a classmate revealed her PTSD to me; she told me it resulted from a local candidate's son raping her while driving her home from volunteering - for his mom. Five months later, guys from Dartmouth College visited our campus; they spent their Saturday night destroying Mt.

That beautiful old statue had weathered a hundred New England winters, but she proved no match for a handful of disrespecting, destructive college men. The next morning, the same guys recruited girls on campus to play an outdoor game on our school quad - but it turned out the "game" involved simulating sexual assault.

As Dr. Blasey-Ford alleged of Kavanaugh in front of the US Senate last week, the Dartmouth men were having fun at our expense, simulating rape as entertainment, humiliating us as females as a part of their game. College administrators never told us whether the Dartmouth students were ever reprimanded. It all was swept under the rug.

We were thrown under the rape train. A rape train.

A popular meme in online gaming, the phrase describes when a gamer has the upper hand over his opponent and taunts them. I never really accepted that females were constantly under threat of sexual attack until well after my college years.

Right after college, I was stalked by a serial rapist who'd followed me home from a ballet class. He gave up on me when he realized the police knew, but I knew of other women he stalked - and they never found him. Then a few years later, a friend here in LA told me about the time she was jumped walking home one night - her assailant had a rope lashed around her throat from behind.

She was able to fight him off and flee, which amazed me. In fact, last week on Twitter, a hashtag went viral, asking what women would do if men had a curfew of p. Research and books about rape culture often describe the situation this way:.

A rape culture condones physical and emotional terrorism against women as the norm. In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable. Simple changes can happen to help this change start. For example, put women in charge of their own college parties.

At Mt. Holyoke, we were always in charge at our parties - the men attended events in our dormitory cafeterias, we had paid chaperones, and we were surrounded by friends who had our backs. I for one would love to live in a world free of weaponized sex and assault, where the vulnerable are protected instead of exploited.

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