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i don't really think it is an issue of "becoming". george washington was a rapist. slavery as an institution was about rape. rape has been used by american troops in every war and is inflicted on the areas surrounding every foreign base.

i am about 40 and george w bush and obama are the only presidents we had that i have not heard predatory allegations against. even before the repeal of dobbs we regularly forced pregnant children to get their rapists to sign permission slips to be allowed abortions

marital rape only was recognized as a crime nationally in 1993. every school i attended as a child had dress codes to keep the girls from looking slutty, starting in kindergarten. prison rape has been a punchline my whole life

the foundations of psychology were built on calling girls who were raped by their relatives delusional or liars. we have the pervasive "you can get stis from a toilet seat" myth because an explanation was needed to paper over children getting diseases after being sexually violated by adults

my middle school is named for a rapist and so is my local children's hospital. adult men started catcalling me from cars when i was 11, which was also the age i was when i first had to navigate the rape of a friend the same age.

was the Vietnam War waged in a spirit of compromise, diplomacy and consent? was the Korean War, the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, the war on Iraq?

All of this, Nora. And we see the equivalent here in Australasia. We have a huge family violence problem here in New Zealand, sexual violence against women, children, queer people is endemic since colonisation.