Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein: "In patriarchy, no one can hear you scream"

Of course they do. They also:

  • display a lot of machismo and/or focus on harming the rapist
  • show a stunning lack of awareness of how often predatory behavior occurs
  • rely on broken stairs and whisper networks, basically “don’t hang out with that guy, he’s kinda rapey… yeah, I’m gonna hang out with him anyway because I’m a dude”
  • lack empathy to an appalling degree

Really, the only solutions that benefit anyone are those that force rapists not to rape.

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