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KitSileya

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9. That, my dear sea, was Rebecca Watson

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 09:40 AM

Mar 2014

She had just spent the evening talking about misogyny and women at skeptic conferences, and during an after-speech bar discussion even said several times that she personally wasn't interested in being picked up - to an audience in which that man was a member - and then, when she off-handedly mentions in a video that asking a woman up to your room, at 4.a.m, while alone with her in an elevator, after she has said several times to you that she's not interested in being hit on, isn't something you should do - she gets death threats and rape threats, and prominent male skeptics saying that that is such a first-world problem...

I'm pretty sure she's still getting rape and death threats for that.

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How To Avoid Being Raped [View all] gollygee Mar 2014 OP

Yup, Might as well make a prison and stay in it. KitSileya Mar 2014 #1

Just as well you can never drink anything gollygee Mar 2014 #2

i gotta throw in. only the monsters, the psychos, the few. so really, what are us women seabeyond Mar 2014 #11

so fuggin' funny. too true. rape week. not rape porn week, but i am talking rape week seabeyond Mar 2014 #3

Yeah I remember gollygee Mar 2014 #4

exactly. the elevator was a woman at 4 am in alone with a man. he asked her back to HIS room seabeyond Mar 2014 #5

And imagine if she'd gone gollygee Mar 2014 #7

and of course. no is not always no. cause there was a study, in the 80's with a handful of seabeyond Mar 2014 #8

That, my dear sea, was Rebecca Watson KitSileya Mar 2014 #9

that. i could not do justice to the whole story and the womans name. and yes, that. seabeyond Mar 2014 #10

She was pilloried here on DU for that. For daring to say to men, redqueen Mar 2014 #12

and ya, empty parking lot, crossing the street at night when a man is approaching. seabeyond Mar 2014 #6

I had to give my husband a good talking-to on that eridani Mar 2014 #13