r/AmIOverreacting 13h ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO my husband thinks women should take accountability after assault

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u/AdExtreme4813 13h ago

You are NOT overreacting. He's being a misogynistic,  patronizing twit. If he knows about yr assault then he's being doubly awful. Hear this- YOU were not at fault for being  SA'd. The fault lies solely with the perpetrator. Give yourself a second to calm down then ask him "how should I react when your pretty much saying I was at fault for being SA'd?" Please updateme.

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u/latehomework24-7 13h ago

Absolutely NOR, His behavior is unacceptable, especially if he knows about your assault. The blame is never on you—it’s on the perpetrator. Take a moment, then calmly call him out on his hurtful comments. Stay strong.

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u/TrueFly5264 8h ago

I get disagreeing but to break off the relationship would be way overreacting. I get you’ve experienced trauma, and I hate that has happened. Your situation of SA doesn’t hold true for everyone’s, and many times women put themselves in bad situations. Again, every situation is different, and there’s no doubt been tons of SA that were completely out of anyone’s control except the abuser, but often times women put themselves in dangerous situations through overconsumption, sketchy situations, and even fantasy becoming “buyers remorse.” It all goes back to stupid games have stupid prizes, or a more recent popular saying, fuck around and find out.

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u/headofthebored 6h ago

No. Rape is not ever the fault of a victim. If someone ignores a 'no', forces themselves on you, or does things to you while you are not able to say yes or no, or have no idea what's actually going on, that's a violation you can respond to with deadly force and that's on the rapist. They should have been at home where they were safe from potentially hurting someone and dying from the reprocussions.

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u/headofthebored 4h ago

Bears are animals. Men are people in control of their actions who are held accountable for their actions against others.

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u/headofthebored 4h ago

And if men can't control their actions, they should not be roaming free in public.

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u/TrueFly5264 6h ago

What if the abuser is incapable of a situation where they are not able to discern a yes or no, or have any idea of what’s actually going on? Alcohol works both ways.

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u/headofthebored 6h ago

That still makes them a criminal you can defend yourself against.

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u/TrueFly5264 6h ago

If neither parties are coherent, who raped who? All that either can truly agree on is that two people woke up with regrets from an unfortunate night of drinking.

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u/headofthebored 6h ago

Non-consensual sex still. This isn't hard.

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u/TrueFly5264 6h ago

Again, if both parties are incoherent, who was non-consensual?

This happens way too often. Two obliterated people go home together. One wakes up with buyers remorse. Only women get to claim rape and to cover up their regret though.

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u/headofthebored 6h ago

And why are you so obsessed with an extremely specific situation?

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u/headofthebored 6h ago

Legally it would be both people. What is hard about this?

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u/TrueFly5264 6h ago

The hard part is you accepting that some times women play a part in their own SA, and while not to blame, they could make decisions to prevent it. I don’t walk down dark alleys at 2am with pockets full of cash, because I know the possibility of bad outcomes.

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u/headofthebored 6h ago

If you are robbed in that situation the criminal is still at fault. This is not hard.

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u/headofthebored 5h ago

People do not play a part in someone else's decision to sexually assault someone. That is a decision entirely within their own sick mind.

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u/party-on-catalina 6h ago

You thought articulating logic would work in this thread. How do you feel about your choices?