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The Cornell Rape Story Doesn’t Shock Me At All
But men aren’t ready for that conversation, are they?
You know, I overheard the stuff about the seven fratboys who gangraped a woman. My gut instinct was to go, “Oh. Sad. Well, back to working on my latest article about cults and psyops now.”
I didn’t think it’d be big news. It didn’t shock me. I wasn’t surprised that their punishment was to write an essay — a punishment doled out by male faculty members and law enforcement. It wasn’t shocking that women were upset about it, either.
What shocked me was that some men actually cared about it, at least performatively. It also shocked me that this managed to make news and that these seven fratheads might be held accountable.
Most women who were deemed “school sluts” probably have their own horror stories about frat boys.
Back before I realized that my “hetero” fetishes were just my brain’s way to prevent me from feeling the pain men put my lesbian ass through, I had a thing for frat boys. Oddly enough, I was sexually assaulted by my frat boy ex, Ryan.
He joined a frat after we started dating in high schhool. I was seeing a new guy but I wanted to stay friends with him because I was lonely. He…
