"A group of boys who taunt a woman walking by are ‘just boys being boys.’ If they grab her or explicitly tell her what they would like to do to her, their behavior is excused because it’s ‘just a joke, they’re just being guys, and they didn’t mean anything by it.’ They benefit from a two-fold system: They’re actions are excused because they didn’t mean anything by it/they were just joking, and their attitudes are infused because by dismissing their obvious display of power and privilege, they not only get to say whatever they want to women, they also get to control how women react to what they have said."
Jesse Lawson
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#feminism
#men
#women
#sexual assault
#male privilege
#dominance
#power
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