This happened last night.
- Guy: There are so many girls in the club who don't respect themselves.
- Me: How do you know they don't respect themselves? Is it because of what they're wearing?
- Guy: That and because of how they're dancing.
- Me: So what you're saying is because a girl dances in a way she finds fun while wearing a dress that makes her feel good, which may or may not be low-cut, tight, or short, she disrespects herself?
- Guy: Oh come on! You know there are those certain types of girls who act a certain way and therefore get treated in a certain way because they don't respect themselves.
- Me: No, I don't know that to be true. What I know is you're reinforcing the rape culture we currently live in.
- Guy: Look, I have cousins and sisters. I know what it's like, but you also have to understand that I'm a man and I... I have urges.
- Me: Oh? So if your cousins or sisters wore a dress they liked and danced a way they liked at a club, and a man just so happened to get urges because of their seductive nature, then they deserve to be treated a certain way by this guy?
- Guy: If a guy did that to my cousins or sisters, I would want to hurt him.
- Me: Then why is it okay for guys to do it to other girls because of the type of girl they are?
- Guy: But you have to admit there is a certain type of girl....
- Me: No. Stop. There are no buts here. There is no "certain type of girl" who deserves to be treated in an inappropriate manner. What a girl wears and how a girl acts is in no way a key card to her sexuality. Clothing and behavior is not consent. You know what is? CONSENT.
It took me nearly a year to get here. It wasn’t so hard to cross that street after all, it all depends on who’s waiting for you on the other side.
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