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History of Feminism

Francis Booth

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6. It can't be legal to threaten rape, can it?

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Sat Jun 4, 2016, 12:55 PM

Jun 2016

The woman in question was probably too terrified to capture some audio/video of those men making the threat, otherwise I would think the police would be interested in this assault.

She probably committed the crime of not responding to some lame catcalling.

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From a Facebook friend's status update [View all] YoungDemCA May 2016 OP

Men should!d teach their children to stop this shit! Silver_Witch May 2016 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalArkie May 2016 #2

Or maybe it's something they see every day on TV shows and in the news, and they see men Squinch May 2016 #3

I'm sorry your friend had to endure this! brer cat May 2016 #4

That is horrible ismnotwasm May 2016 #5

It can't be legal to threaten rape, can it? Francis Booth Jun 2016 #6

terrible, and there's an underlying threat of real violence geek tragedy Jun 2016 #7