Not sure what this was in response to, but to back up this post: CJ Pascoe wrote about “r*pe discourse,” where men who fall closer to the right side of the spectrum in the pic use their societal views (top bar in the pic) to push blame onto worse ppl and get away with stuff that’s still bad. Eg, a guy might be harassing a girl over text, but he’ll say “I’m not one of those crazed evil men who SAs ppl, those guys are awful,” separating himself from a group he’s not actually that far removed from
Im going to give you a personal experience where a man prevented me from getting r@ped and how little he did. My freshman year of college, I went to a frat party bc I was trying to be straight (only hanging out with straight ppl, dating only men). I met a frat boy at this party and he drugged me, I had half of a Truly and I blacked out. The rest of this is from the photos my guy friend took that night. He saw me at the party and noticed how the frat boy was propping me up and basically keeping
Me standing. My friend walked up to the frat boy who was with me and started talking to me and insisted he took a picture with me and the frat boy. He stayed next to me the rest of the night. The frat boy kept trying to get him to leave and at one point tried to take me home. My friend followed us home with his camera out the entire time. The only reason I was brought back to my place that night is bc my male friend followed us home and the next morning called me and asked what i remembered
He filled in the holes in my memory. Nothing he did was crazy or putting himself in a dangerous situation, he was just persistent. I know that night would have had a different ending if my friend didn’t stay with me. That’s how simple it is to be the hero. Just be vigilant and if you see something try innocent ways to insert yourself into the situation