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ismnotwasm

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10. "The answer is to change the culture"
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 04:24 PM
Mar 2014

Exactly

I remember those kinds of days-- a bit different for me. I hung out with hard partiers, tough women and men in their own way. What we would do was avoidance--- give out the wrong number, ditch them, find someone else. They want to by drinks fine, they want to do their drugs fine. It didn't get them laid. Sometimes maybe

Often we'd just stick with a group of friends male and female, same crowd, same party.

If we wanted to get casually laid we'd do that to, but that didn't give anyone license over our bodies.

A repeat performance wasn't guaranteed.

That's just one of the many reasons that the claim that women have drunk sex, then get ashamed, or upset and cry rape is so irritating. We were exchanging notes by the next morning and laughing our asses off.

No, I wasn't a nice person in my youth.

I was almost seriously raped twice, long, ugly stories, and there are people here and now who would say because I partied, was a bit of a hedonist that I "deserved it". The reason I wasn't raped, (broken nose and bruises only) is I just have a bit of fight in me before flight and had some damn good luck. And neither time was I "partying"

On some very good advice By the time I was in my late twenties, I spent a year saying "no". With an honest valid reason if I cared to give one. I stuck with it. I stuck with honesty. I stuck with it strong.

It was freedom.

I began to be able to differentiate between men, and men's behavior, understand women and women's behavior; (I never did respect predators or so called 'bad boys'; the ones I knew were in and out of jail or prison-- Fuck That) which is probably how I ended up with my husband, a kind, decent honest man who genuinely respects women. I gained sympathy for women stuck in vicious cycles of poor choices in partners. ( I used to think, why doesn't she just dump him-- yes, I was one of THOSE--Ick)

Funny thing about him, my husband he'd get girlfriends just by being a "nice guy" because he was and is a genuinely "nice guy"

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