I’m reposting this from my facebook because I wanna post it here too

toadprince:

I recently moved out of the town I’ve been living in for the last three years, which is something I am very happy about. There are a lot of issues with the people in that area in which I would like to discuss. I’ve been sexually assaulted twice in there, and I’ve been sexually harassed by a lot of men around the area too, and I and have had many other traumatizing encounters with men there alongside that. None of these men were gun-toting openly woman hating republicans. They’ve all been men who hold themselves as liberal or leftist, and many times they identify as feminists too. I think one thing that people refuse to acknowledge is that your friends who are butch, your friends who are trans, and your friends who are women of color experience the white men you bring around in an entirely different perspective than you do. Everyone knows that men secretly mistreat the women they see as “lesser” but nobody seems to be able to recognize, or is willing to try to recognize when a man within your own circle is the perpetrator of that behavior. There is just a general attitude of disbelieving women who have lenses that others don’t experience. Both men who have sexually assaulted me have been men who are involved with my town’s LGBT communities, and for all I know, they still are. These men talk and interact with people within the same social circles as me. I’ve been roofied three times there, two of those times being at the town’s monthly gay dance. A man who stalked me and tried to threaten me so I would sleep with him used to be president of my school’s Queer Student Union. The sexual assault problem is a problem with male violence. The reason I’m writing is this because everyone in my facebook newsfeed is blaming these behaviors on republicans over and over and over when really it is a problem with men regardless of their political alignment. I think people really need to start questioning the men they interact with.