Image by Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch
Last week I saw a Tweet which read “pressuring a girl until she says yes isn’t normal either btw” - a sentiment I think would resonate with most women. What followed was a thread of people expressing their experiences in response to this; but it wasn’t just victims, those guilty of perpetrating this behaviour were also weighing in. I was amazed at how open this conversation was; individuals engaging with quite a loaded tweet productively to look inward rather than defend or simply dismiss it as irrelevant to them. Once one person had disclosed his ignorance growing up, I saw others follow suit in reflecting on previous regretted actions. This response continued once I re-shared the tweet on my story, with men DMing me in praise of the thread. Here is one of the messages*:
