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The discourse we have surrounding rape makes me uncomfortable.

inflateablefilth:

This is probs gonna be triggering when it comes to rape, and possibly a few *isms too.

The main thing I see people talking about when they talk about rape is how nobody deserves it whether they flirt with a person or have short skirts or whatever else. And this is important and true and all that, don’t get me wrong.

But, can we just for a little while acknowledge that some of us have our rapes ignored not because of our clothing or our promiscuity or our previous relationship with the rapist, but because we’re considered unrapeable, because we’re seen as repulsive.

I’m talking about fat people, disabled people, trans people, especially trans women… I’ve heard a lot of POC women say they get the same attitude from people, especially if the rapist is white.

I think we need to seriously address the intersectionality that surrounds rape. The discourse I see focuses on the rapes and the kind of rape culture that affects white, abled cis women. We need to talk about how First Nations women make up a high percentage of rape victims in the US. We need to talk about how an astonishing number of developmentally and physically disabled people are raped compared to abled people. We need to talk about how so few people think fat women get raped because so few people think anyone would want to have sex with them. We need to talk about how a fuckton of cis feminist lesbians see trans women saying they’re lesbians too is a form of rape culture and how undeniably fucked up that is.

We need to understand that privileges exist in rape culture too.