Confession: I regularly tweet at work. And not just because
I manage all the social media for my company. I work for a start-up company,
which means my job description includes the ability to “hurry up and wait.”
In-between actual job tasks, I read the latest on Jezebel, stalk my new
favorite blogs, and tweet about sexual assault.
Today, as I was getting ready to leave work, I tweeted two
things.
The response to the first was typical.
The response to the second is the most number of retweets
and favorites I have ever received. By far.
Not surprisingly, I also received a small number of hostile
replies to the suggestion that men shouldn’t be nearly as worried about being
falsely accused of rape as they should about being victims of rape. Maybe
because it’s easier to think women are more likely to lie than men are to be
violent? I don’t know.
In light of the recent Steubenville case, and the disgusting
amount of victim-blaming on the Internet, and the fight I had with my twin
brother (the rape apologist) last week, and the replies I received to this
tweet… I give you…
A post on men and sexual violence.
