✅ UNCLEAR ❌

its very telling when ppl hear discussion of this subject and purposefully twist this into "rape isn't a big deal." rape is a violation of an person's bodily autonomy and individual will like any other sort of assault, and that is inherently serious and grave. any violation of an individual causes suffering, which should be avoided.

but we don't act like victims of robbery or even attempted murder are permanently tainted in this way that we do with rape, and that doesn't come from nowhere. we wouldn't say that someone is better off murdered than robbed, even when the circumstances of robbery can be just as violating and even more literally costly than sexual assault. it can have distinct impacts, but there's no point in pretending this sort of violence has a hierarchy that Rape is at the top of. by so doing it (rape) becomes a sort of sacred cow which is then seized and weaponized by patriarchy once more.