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Apr. 16th, 2015 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fandomnumbergenerator"We talk about sexual assault on campus, and I feel like one underlying idea there is that somehow it’s unseemly to talk about sex as having emotional weight, and that that’s become a struggle that we are not supposed to voice, and yet, it’s there, it exists. So people end up using other words like, ‘abused,’ or they feel bad in some way, but you can’t talk about it in an emotionally weighty sense"
—Hanna Rosin, Double X Gabfest, Slate 4/16/2015
Why do I listen to the Double X Gabfest? Everything Rosin says about campus sexual assault (or more generally, youth sexual assault, since she also talks about the military) just makes my blood boil.
If I am understanding her correctly here, she is basically saying that women (always women, because men are apparently never sexually assaulted) who have had their feelings hurt in a hook up then cry “Abuse!” because they don’t have the language to explain their feels.
