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niyad

(113,325 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 09:50 PM Mar 2015

the 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 I’ll 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 Alison’s 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/

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the phone rang-it was my college rapist (trigger warning) (Original Post) niyad Mar 2015 OP
kick Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 #1
Time of the night, maybe? xmas74 Mar 2015 #2
violence against women tends to be a subject of low interest. niyad Mar 2015 #5
yes it is unfortunately.KICK! Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 #17
Maybe the MRA crowd was busy liberalhistorian Mar 2015 #16
think they are busy over in the t-shirt thread. niyad Mar 2015 #19
Kick. NuclearDem Mar 2015 #3
.. . . niyad Mar 2015 #4
Breaks my heart when I read something like this. trumad Mar 2015 #6
Wow….. "The End?" MrMickeysMom Mar 2015 #7
doing our small part here. niyad Mar 2015 #8
Holy crap gollygee Mar 2015 #9
you have that absolutely correct. niyad Mar 2015 #10
Back to the top of Page 1 ScreamingMeemie Mar 2015 #11
appreciate the post... hate the story, love the response salin Mar 2015 #12
very freaky. niyad Mar 2015 #13
Kick! (And especially for everyone who doubts that rape is a power thing.) Heidi Mar 2015 #14
Powerful and important. K&R nt riderinthestorm Mar 2015 #15
. . . niyad Mar 2015 #18

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
9. Holy crap
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 11:19 AM
Mar 2015

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.

salin

(48,955 posts)
12. appreciate the post... hate the story, love the response
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:07 PM
Mar 2015

both the phone call and the cartoon.

WTF with the guy callling 33 yrs later... indeed - all about power and domination.

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