Link – Opinion | The Rape Jokes We Still Laugh At

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This could not be any more true, and any more wrong.

“The “Me Too” movement has made Americans more aware about sexism and sexual consent, but that sensitivity often does not extend to prisons, where over 200,000 inmates are sexually assaulted every year.”

Sadly, I’ve seen some of the same people who claim to support sexual assault awareness, and proclaim that no victim is ever to blame, make these same kinds of jokes about a sex offender. If it’s wrong, it’s wrong for everyone. No human being deserves to be sexually assaulted.

Period.

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