I do want to bring up, that, from what I’ve heard, the victim in the Jacob Geller stuff didn’t want to come forward about it. I cannot imagine what it’s like to become a social media sensation this way. I know the truth is out now, but like I don’t think she wants to see randos chiming in with their based opinions on all the terrible things the legal system should have done to her abuser. It just really puts me off that this was released without her involvement.

I’ve seen it so often that people ignore the victim and instead go about focusing all attention on enacting violence against the rapist. It’s basically like a cue for the “good men” to be allowed to pretend to be protectors of women via performative extreme violence against the “bad men.” Ofc it isn’t just men doing this, but still.

I’m not like an anti-violence person btw I do believe we should have feminist violence, but I believe in the violence necessary to abolish patriarchy, not legalist and performative ultra-super punishment against the endless stream of rapists that patriarchy creates; it doesn’t help to whack the moles harder if you don’t address why they keep showing up and it definitely can’t un-rape people. If we just used half of the mental energy we spend fantasizing about creative ways to punish rapists on actually helping victims… imagine.