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I’m sure there have already been scores of hastily recorded videos trying to capitalize on the Jacob Geller revelations, but this was a really serious, thoughtful video from a survivor which delves into r@pe culture, notions of “forgiveness” and “futures” which are valued for men who perpetrate these assaults but not for their victims (or for that matter, even for other men in society who do things which are punished much more harshly than sexual assault—say, protesting the genocide in Gaza), how hollow and self-serving the calls for “restorative justice” are, and how making good video essays does literally nothing to facilitate that healing or mitigate the harm caused.

Separately, how do people feel about “CW: SA” vs. “CW: sexual assault”? I usually use the former, since it’s shorter and perhaps less direct, but that indirection could be a double-edged sword, especially for people who are not native English speakers (or simply aren’t familiar with that abbreviation). But I’d like to hear from the people who actually need the content warning rather than assuming anything.

…it occurs to me that I should probably post this question somewhere that doesn’t filter out the people who choose not to click through because of the CW.

  • larrikin99 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    21 days ago

    even for other men in society who do things which are punished much more harshly than sexual assault- say, protesting the genocide in Gaza

    Lmao, and what would Jessie Gender know about that?

    • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      21 days ago

      I literally only just found her videos within the past few weeks so idk what she has or hasn’t said about Gaza, but in the context of the video she’s drawing an explicit comparison between Cornell students being swiftly punished for participating in protests against the genocide and Cornell students being given slaps on the wrist for sexual assault:

      Our society endlessly tells us that we can’t have this conduct stain men’s futures, the potential they could still give to society. We are so very tender with the future tense when we speak of men who r@pe. We peer 10 years ahead and see the job that he might lose, the children he might someday have, the career that might never flower. We grieve for hypothetical books, hypothetical promotions, hypothetical successes, all those beautiful, We must preserve his potential, his future, so we mitigate the consequences to it.

      Though, to be clear, we do know how to destroy someone’s future when we believe they deserve it. We simply do not believe that r@pe is sufficient. In 2024, the same year that these students r@ped Jane Doe, Cornell arrested, expelled, and suspended tens of students protesting the genocide in Gaza. There was far less anguish over who those students might become in 10 years, and even less to the children killed in Gaza whom these students were protesting for.

      We, as a culture, are not actually unwilling to destroy young people’s, even young men’s futures. We simply are selective about whose futures we consider sacred.