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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe phone rang-it was my college rapist (trigger warning)
As told to Jen Sorensen by Anonymous
In November 2014, not long after the Bill Cosby rape allegations blew up in the news, a friend of mine reached out to tell me her own story of sexual assault and asked if I would draw a comic about her experience.
The friend, whom Ill call Alison, was assaulted after unknowingly ingesting some sort of tranquilizing agent during her senior year at college in the early 1970s; she was 21 years old. Alison says that her goal in telling her story is not to incriminate her assailant but to raise awareness about what she calls an insidious problem of powerful men who think they can get away with abuse. Although some details have been changed to protect identities, I have tried to tell Alisons story in her own words as much as possible.JS
the entire strip at link:
http://fusion.net/story/60581/the-phone-rang-it-was-my-college-rapist/
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Why did this topic drop like a stone?
xmas74
(29,674 posts)Maybe this will push it back up.
niyad
(113,325 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,818 posts)getting their talking points together on how to blame the woman??
niyad
(113,325 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)The decision to publish this comic is so right.
I hope this goes viral. K&R
niyad
(113,325 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)This is a good example of how these guys do know they're raping, that it isn't consensual, and that they get off on it. They don't want sex and aren't confused about consent, they want rape and know exactly what they're doing. "Date rape" = rape.
niyad
(113,325 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)both the phone call and the cartoon.
WTF with the guy callling 33 yrs later... indeed - all about power and domination.