Michaella Henry
1 min readMar 29, 2021

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I completely disagree. This is clickbait, and harmful, careless clickbait that could be very triggering for survivors who scroll past a phrase they have been told to disqualify their experience.

Women can rape men. Some women do rape men and boys. Not for you to decide which gender’s rape counts as rape. You can be a woman in the same social situation as the male victim with no “privilege” such as money, age, or social status and rape a man who is unconscious or a man who loves you and feels societal pressure to never say ‘no’.

There are a bunch of other scenarios being discounted by this piece. I don’t watch Bridgerton so I am not privy to what happened in that situation but there was a better way to have this conversation. It doesn’t start with an insulting title.

In this section of your piece, Sentence A contradicts Sentence B contradicts Sentence C. I think at the root there might be an important phenomenon to highlight but it should have been more thought out.

Men oppress women in society. Rich oppress poor. White oppress Black. But in all of these cases it is possible for an individual from the oppressed group to commit a violent act against an individual from the oppressing group.

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Michaella Henry
Michaella Henry

Written by Michaella Henry

Writer and UX Designer. Neurodivergent. Intersectional Feminist. Crafting personal narratives that make strangers feel less alone. Psych, Gender Equity, Race.

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