Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readMay 11, 2024

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Go back and actually read the essay. You've completely and totally missed the point - on purpose, I'm guessing.

First off, it's not 3% of men and secondly, it's ALL women. You are responsible for holding other men accountable for mainstream norms of masculinity that drive violence and sexual predation - and that harm men too. These aren't "bad apples" - these are regular men acting on mainstream norms of masculinity.

32% of men actually had the nerve to tell researchers that they would force a woman into sex if there were no repercussions for them. Imagine how many more thought that but didn't say it out loud? We live in a violent rape culture and guys like you ARE a huge part of the problem for why that exists because your fragility and cowardice in challenging this shit is directly responsible for why it still exists.

Undetected rapists are men who typically behave in stereotypically masculine ways, see sex as conquest, and are hypersensitive to any perceived slight against their manhood. But they are not crazy, and they are not sociopaths. “There is simply no evidence, save the rape itself,” Katharine Baker writes in the Harvard Law Review, “suggesting that all or even most rapists are objectively depraved.” Chillingly, she goes on to say that given the social norms that encourage it, there is evidence that rape is “culturally dictated, not culturally deviant.”

~The Macho Paradox by Jackson Katz

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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