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I am talking to the owner of a towing business. He says, “Oh, the phone companies are just raping me…”

I am a survivor of rape and sexual assault. I email him later to ask him to consider changing his language - that using a term of violence so casually contributes to a climate of seeing rape as “no big deal.” He said he’s not politically correct and that I should learn self-defense. He tells me to “Grow up, kiddo.” Then he complains that I didn’t consider his feelings when I told him what had happened to me.

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  5. gardnerhill said: Water is wet, the sky is blue, and men are shit.
  6. argentarachnids said: It never ceases to amaze me the gall of ppl who go “you’re making me uncomfortable describing to me the traumatic thing I’m trivializing*
  7. gnotknormal said: Wow :/ I’ve heard this used in this way as a teenager before we all really understood it. But if I heard an adult speaking this sort of language I’d run for the hills.
  8. shamishoom reblogged this from microaggressions and added:
    What the hell?? Why would someone even go throwing around words like that that may be sensitive to the people around...
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