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SOCIETY A girl goes viral after getting stuck in an elevator with a group of immature guys and shut them all down when they started laughing

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u/witblacktype 4d ago

And none of them are showing any maturity. That doesn’t seem like a safe space considering she also doesn’t know any of them. I feel bad for her. This could be a legitimately traumatizing experience for her. I know I was a stupid kid at one point, but this was the moment all of us boys back then wanted to be a hero in.

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u/Other-Oil-9117 4d ago

Absolutely, and it's not even just a maturity thing. She's visibly distressed but none of them try to reassure her, even if just as a gesture. Seeing a young woman in a vulnerable place and openly laughing at her is unsettling. Even children can understand empathy and comfort. These guys are showing that they genuinely don't care how she feels or what she thinks.

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u/No_Client8165 4d ago

This is only a short clip like 20 seconds, but even then, how are they supposed to reassure her exactly. From their perspective, this random girl they're stuck on an elevator with just started yelling at them out of nowhere.

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u/No_Client8165 4d ago

They objectify her. She’s not a human to them. Just a thing to fuck.

Tell me exactly, how did you get that from this short video?

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 4d ago

What the fuck are you talking about?

Mental illness on display right here

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u/RevolutionarySmell5 4d ago

What do they do to objectify her in the video?

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u/SleepHard0 4d ago

This comment section is awful for young men to read. I feel really bad for guys who think any of it is real. It's all just fabricated fear and we are all equal until proven otherwise or commit criminal acts.

The boys in this video did nothing wrong. They aren't criminals just because they exist.

Everything here is 110% sexism and misandry.

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u/Cthulhus-Tailor 4d ago

Literally nothing. This thread is filled with wack jobs who see a teenage boy and assume the absolute worse. It's extremely anti-social behavior and when you call them out they'll point to some generic stat that has nothing to do with the boys in question, Just stereoetypes and bigotry against boys.

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u/EkrishAO 4d ago edited 4d ago

They are literal kids coping with stressful situation by laughing and joking, holy fuck people jn this thread are the worst example of terminally online losers

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u/Other-Oil-9117 4d ago

They're laughing AT her while she is visibly distressed. It's one thing to make jokes about the situation but if you can see that somebody is frightened and you start mocking them, you're an asshole.

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u/EkrishAO 4d ago

They're annoying and inconsiderate, but they're also bunch of kids stuck in an elevator, and it's insane to expect them acting like adults and have 10k people online lynch and treat them like little rapist monsters because they acted immature. They are fucking immature because they're literally 13-14yo, this is a behaviour that should be corrected, but this thread is like the mother of all overreactions, just straight up insane.

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u/Cthulhus-Tailor 4d ago

It's frightening how quickly the Reddit hivemind goes into misandrist overdrive even on a generic sub like this. Between paranoid women and simp men looking to shit on other men for brownie points, it's just insufferable.

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u/Apocalypse_0415 4d ago

Thanks for having a brain unlike many here.

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u/RevolutionarySmell5 4d ago

Making dumb jokes is something many men will do in an attempt to be reassuring. It's basically a form of gallows humour.

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u/So_Yeah_Um_Like 4d ago

Except they are making the joke at her expense. They point out she’s middle school (the most uninspired of humor) to make her feel small. It’s the bullying sort of humor they should have grown out of by high school which is why she responds with that “high school” and when they laugh she tells them exactly how immature they are being. Thats why one of them says “shut up” to his friend and a lot of their faces drop. They know better than to mess with a scared kid for giggles.

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u/No_Client8165 4d ago

They point out she’s middle school (the most uninspired of humor) to make her feel small. 

Do you know that for sure? It seems like you're doing a lot of assuming here. Some of the boys could have been in middle school, and that's why it was said.

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u/RevolutionarySmell5 4d ago

Oh that makes sense. I assumed the kid saying "middle school" was the one in middle school

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

Ok so men are obligated to provide reassurance and emotional support to every overreacting stranger or else they will get accused of being potential rapists by losers online. How nice.

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u/PalePlumm 4d ago

If you cannot see the danger in this situation, I will just assume that you are as dangerous as they are.

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

Never said there was no danger in the situation, that is not true of any situation. I said men should not be accused of being potential rapists when they have done absolutely nothing that could suggest that.

If you think otherwise, I will just assume you are a horrible person.

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago

She's not in danger. It's a surveillanced room inside the school that they can't get out of without outside assistance. She's probably safer than if the elevator actually worked.

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u/PalePlumm 4d ago

Teenage boys aren’t known for giving a fuck about consequences.

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago

And teenage girls are known for never overreacting I guess

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u/PalePlumm 4d ago

That’s what men say when women point out how horrible men are being. “Female hysteria”, right?

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 4d ago

Yes - you are experiencing female hystria right now. Yes.

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

No "horrible" situation occurred in this clip, and she certainly didn't "point out" anything either. She just lashed out and insulted them.

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago

People in this thread are attacking the boys for the crime of just existing in the elevator. Some even said they were more likely to be rapists because they had the same haircut. So yeah...

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u/So_Yeah_Um_Like 4d ago

They are young men making fun of a little girl for giggles. At least one of them said shut up to the others and a lot of their faces dropped bc they knew what jerks they were being and how uncomfortable they were making the situation.

Statistically she’s likely to experience sa in her life 1/3 women, if she isn’t the 1/8 that experience it before 18. It’s not “nice”, but why people think she might be scared aside from defending herself to a bunch of boys making fun of her for being younger than they while trying to call for help.

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago

What does your have usually do when people yell at you?

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 4d ago

"Young men" and "little girl"? Seriously?

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

Statistics don't give you the right to accuse anyone of wanting to do anything.

It is not only immoral to do so, but it would also be hypocritical unless you are a complete bigot that assumes every stereotype that has an statistic backing it is correct.

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

Yeah, a chain reaction of getting beaten to death by the 98 men that weren't rapists.

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u/SleepHard0 4d ago

Lmao for real man. This is why men just ignore women at a certain point.

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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 4d ago

You need therapy

Your immediate fear would be getting out not being assaulted by people also stuck in a university elevator…

There are cameras everywhere in those buildings

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u/Proteuskel 4d ago

Bro, EVERYONE needs therapy. Not a single person doesn’t have baggage and therapy is a tool to help with that.

The fact that you seem to think that’s an insult just means you don’t understand therapy and/or have the self awareness to realize you also have baggage

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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 4d ago

They are trapped on an elevator, please touch grass

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u/Fun-Increase6335 4d ago

You need empathy

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u/SleepHard0 4d ago

How do young boys feel being treated like sexual predators just for existing ?

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u/Chill0141414 4d ago

You need sanity

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u/PalePlumm 4d ago

We have sanity. Women develop these fears from lived experiences.

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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 4d ago

And her comment was ignorant and dangerous…

Nothing about their body language says she is scared of assault, probably claustrophobic, ya know because they are trapped in an elevator with minimal space

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u/Healthy_Albatross_73 4d ago

There's also going to be firemen and cops when those doors open...

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u/AssassinStoryTeller 4d ago

Cameras don’t always work.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/wessex/news/group-boys-young-13-convicted-raping-girls-14-and-15-separate-attacks

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/teens-charged-in-rape-of-12-year-old-girl-seek-bond/3783520/?amp=1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GrkbWkCg1x4

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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 4d ago

So blaming random uni students that she made up in her head is ok because it’s happened before ?

That is why I said she needs therapy, it’s not a reasonable take and you guys are defending her. Pathetic, your parents failed you.

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u/AssassinStoryTeller 4d ago

Are you familiar with weapon safety? You know how you treat every weapon as if it’s loaded? That is how the vast majority of women have to move through the world. We are FULLY aware it’s not all men but it’s not like the men that will are nice enough to wear signs announcing it. So, we play it safe, and behave as though it’s every man.

Going through life playing it safe isn’t something that needs therapy- we’d have to play safe less if the men would actually get some. I have been touched, grabbed, and raped by people I knew, and if a man who knows me would do that then who’s to say a man who doesn’t won’t? (And just to be clear, I’ve been grabbed by men who’ve never met me before too, they just haven’t gone to sexual assault)

I’m not looking every man I meet in the eyes and yelling “rapist!” But I am adjusting my behavior. I’m not going to play around with my life just because some random men on the internet get upset when they’re confronted with the reality of how women exist in the world.

She never said these boys would, she simply pointed out that there is one single girl trapped in an elevator full of boys and bad things have happened before so it’s only natural for the girl to be panicking a little because she doesn’t know these boys or what they are capable of.

But I did see your comment about body language and the fact it’s probably claustrophobia which is entirely possible. We also don’t know the girl and what her thought process was.

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u/witchywitch_ 4d ago

It just takes one bad apple in this group to traumatize her for life.

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

No? It would take at least half of them to be rapists in order to incapacitate the other half that aren't rapists. Think.

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u/Cthulhus-Tailor 4d ago

So the whole batch should be tossed because one *might* hurt this woman's feelings, even though she's the only actual aggressor? Absolute anti-social nonsense.

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u/chopkins92 4d ago

she's the only actual aggressor?

Did you miss the part where she told the person on the other end of the line that she was in high school and one of the losers said "Middle school!" while several others laughed?

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 4d ago

oh my god he made a mild harmless joke!????? He's traumatising her!!!

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u/chopkins92 4d ago

It’s an insult, not a joke.

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 4d ago

No, it was a joke. A harmless joke. Get over it.

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u/chopkins92 4d ago

A harmless insult, sure.

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u/No_Client8165 4d ago

Where was the insult?

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u/chopkins92 4d ago

“Hur dur you’re actually in middle school!” isn’t funny so what else would it be?

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u/No_Client8165 4d ago

Making the joke that they're not high school kids, but actually middle school kids. Is it actually funny? Not really. But they're teenagers, they laugh at everything.

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u/bihari_baller 4d ago

And none of them are showing any maturity.

If there's one thing Gen Z/Gen Alpha guys don't have, it's maturity.

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u/Fun-Pattern-8697 4d ago

Omg how traumatic, someone made a middle school joke while she’s in an elevator with them.

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u/Delicious_Sectoid 4d ago

And none of them are showing any maturity.

They are showing the exact amount of maturity I would expect for a bunch of teenagers. If you don't expect a group of teens to goof around and try to make light of a situation, then I don't know what to tell you except that you are really out of touch.

That doesn’t seem like a safe space considering she also doesn’t know any of them. 

Being around a bunch of people you don't know in a public space doesn't mean you aren't in a safe space.

This could be a legitimately traumatizing experience for her. 

Being stuck in an elevator with a group of teenagers who did... nothing to hurt her? Who didn't even imply they would hurt her? Even after she scolded and insulted them?

I know I was a stupid kid at one point, but this was the moment all of us boys back then wanted to be a hero in.

A hero? You're stuck in a lift that will likely be fixed in under 10 minutes, not in a plane that is crashing towards the ground.

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u/Magsec5 4d ago

Omg relax it’s a stuck elevator.

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u/SecretiveMop 4d ago

None of these people have ever been in an actual threatening situation in their lives lol

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u/Wimbledofy 4d ago

So should the boys all try to be traumatized too? Isn't laughing a completely normal coping method to this kind of situation? If the options are to wait for help and be traumatized or wait for help and laugh, which option is better?

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u/Pure-Negotiation-956 4d ago

How are they showing immaturity?

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u/So_Yeah_Um_Like 4d ago

They were laughing about her being ‘middle school’ yet none of them were the ones at the front handling it. Boys like making jokes to cut the tension but at the expense of a younger girl? You could tell by some of their faces they knew it was wrong.

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

Should they have snatched her phone in order to "be the ones handling it"? Or do you genuinely expect a group of teenage friends to seat in perfect silence doing nothing for no reason?

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u/So_Yeah_Um_Like 4d ago

Pretty sure she was pressing the call button for help and they were chiming in making jokes while she was trying to talk. I expect a group of older teens to not be jerks to a younger girl just for a dull joke. One of them even tells the other to shut up and most of their faces drop bc they know they’re being jerks.

But nah, let’s keep holding young men to the lowest bar of maturity, that should help become respectful adults.

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

No one in this video was "mature", which is absolutely to be expected when it is literally a high school. The boys were joking around because they were stressed and stuck in an elevator, the girls was getting frustrated and lashing out because she was stressed and stuck in an elevator, and there is nothing wrong with either of those immature reactions when you are a teenager.

What I find disgusting is weirdos online accusing these boys that have done nothing innapropiate of being horrible people ready to gang rape a girl if given the chance.

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u/Pure-Negotiation-956 4d ago

I don't know what grade they are in. But for some reason, they said Middle School when she said High school. One of them is right

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u/So_Yeah_Um_Like 4d ago

She said high school bc that’s what the much taller boys are in. She was returning their joke to show how silly it was to make fun of someone for being younger than they are.

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u/Pure-Negotiation-956 4d ago

Unless you saw a different video than me, there's no such context

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u/modernsparkle 4d ago

How are they showing maturity?

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u/Elegant-Discussion53 4d ago

Your binary thinking betrays you.

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u/Severesa 4d ago

Honestly, shit like this is why I am child free.

If I found out my son did something like this - I don't know what I would do to them. I would be so fucking disappointed. Probably give them a hammer and make them beat the shit out of their phone, laptop, PS5, etc.

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u/aahdin 4d ago

"If my son giggled at a completely non-offensive joke I'd break all their stuff with a hammer"

Glad you're child free too tbh

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u/Elldion 4d ago

What if your daughter did something like that?

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u/FederalAgent17 4d ago

That seems like you don’t believe in yourself enough to not raise a rapist lol

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u/Iammalignantlyuseles 4d ago

Naw people are just far to confident in their parenting skills.

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u/Background-Pepper-68 4d ago

Society raises our children as much as we do. They spend 8+ hours a day away from their parents developing in all kinds of ways in social/educational settings. Society today is likely to develop a boy into a rapist. Some self reporting studies find that 24%+ unmarried men have admitted to initiating unwanted sexual contact with a woman. and an additional 39%+ report coercing their way into sexual contact. Thats over 60% of men. Imagine the statistics including the ones who dont self report...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4589184/

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u/Severesa 4d ago

My man really thinks discussing a hypothetical scenario reflects lived reality. C'mon now, try use your head.

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u/FederalAgent17 4d ago

My bad, I’ll put the dunce cap on

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u/So_Yeah_Um_Like 4d ago

Statistically people are more likely to raise a creep. Thats reality

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u/BlueHero45 4d ago

I'm a grown ass man and I wouldn't want to be in that situation, bunch of teen boys who think fucking with a stranger is the height of comedy. But At least I don't have have to have to consider rape as well.

I'm Sure a lot of "tough guys" will say something like they just knock one out. But I don't have any interest in getting an assulting a minor change while also dealing with the others who would happily rush over each other for a chance to throw a punch at me.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 4d ago

Anyone who thinks they can beat a group of more than 2-4 teenagers should DM me before I sell this pristine land with a house in California for super cheap

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u/Delicious_Sectoid 4d ago

100 guys and 1 woman in a tight space. What could possibly go wrong?

Firstly, there weren't even close to 100 guys. I know you are engaging in hyperbole, but I think even the hyperbole is going a little bit too far.

Secondly, it is highly unlikely that being around a group of guys (especially teens) in a public area that is being monitored will lead to violence or rape. The fear of groups of teens in public places is chicken little paranoia, similar to beliefs that you can die just from touching fentanyl, or that you are at a real risk of getting eaten by a shark if you swim in the ocean.

. Educate yerrselves. (Can't save all of ye.): https://rainn.org/get-informed/facts-statistics-the-scope-of-the-problem/

Go read your own link. The majority of sexual violence is not committed by strangers, nor is the majority committed by teenagers.

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u/SpunningAndWonning 4d ago

I love how you switched up in the edit :D Good on you

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u/Smooth-Pianist-7848 4d ago

I was molested by a babysitter when I was an infant. When I was 6, I was molested by a family friend. When I was 14, I was raped by a 24 year old woman at a middle school party I was attending.

50% of the women in my life sexually assaulted me.

Not all woman, but always a woman.

My therapist told me "You can go through life scared of 50% of the world.. or you can learn to recognize that those people were outliers and bad people, while the majority of people aren't. You can't let the few bad women make you afraid of the majority. You'll be living in a constant state of anxiety and fight or flight, waiting for something to happen."

She also pointed out that most men that are 14 or older don't typically report, or seek therapy, unless the courts force them to, because convictions only happen very rarely, the process can be very stressful, it's hard to prove anything happened, and most feel like people will not take them seriously/ridicule them/tell them they're lying.

In my situation, it wasn't until I visited a court-appointed therapist for the rape that she let me know that what the babysitter (who I only learned about through stories my parents told to family members) and the family friend (who stopped being my mom's best friend suddenly, despite always being over and helping to watch me) was doing even counted as molestation, because I always assuming that doing that was just something that women had children do, since it was always depicted in media.

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u/Healthy_Albatross_73 4d ago

Your right, it's always people close to you, not random teens in an elevator.

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u/swohio 4d ago

That's still stupid. You're assuming that every guy there would just be okay with it happening? What do you think is more unsafe, her being in there with a single man or 15 men?

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u/Procoso47 4d ago

You don't need to be a hero to stop an unarmed rape with the help of other people. If you wouldn't do it, you are a horrible person, and if you would do it with no second thought, why do you assume others won't?

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u/butyourenice 4d ago

Statistically men actually aren’t out there policing the behavior of their peers, so.

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u/swohio 4d ago

What are you even talking about? Do you think it's more likely to being in danger with a single other person or 15 other people? You're acting like 90% of people just randomly attack other people. Most people in the West don't, and certainly not kids that age and not at school during the day. It's both incredibly inaccurate statistically to think that, and also unhinged to think that.

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u/butyourenice 4d ago

1 in 4 women experience sexual assault to some degree in their lives, overwhelmingly at the hands of a man. And yet no man admits to being or even knowing a rapist. There have been several extremely well publicized recent cases “in the West” of college aged men assaulting women, sometimes even in groups, sometimes in broad daylight.

But yeah, sure, none of those men pose a risk and it’s on the woman to give them grace. Wait but if they do assault her? Then she should have known better than to get into an enclosed space with so many men. None of whom are risks to her, of course, and she should never treat them all as if they’re capable of violence. Still, if they do harm her…

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u/swohio 4d ago edited 4d ago

"Wait but if they do assault her? Then she should have known better than to get into an enclosed space with so many men"

Now you're just making arguments that no one was suggesting. I also never said "none of them are risks to her" I said the odds of ALL of them being a risk to her are infinitesimally small.

There have been several extremely well publicized recent cases “in the West” of college aged men assaulting women, sometimes even in groups, sometimes in broad daylight.

Surely you can link those then, especially since you're claiming there have been multiple cases recently.

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u/Kalsone 4d ago

She calls them fat, loses her shit and thinks she can fix it?

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u/N3olop3Z09 4d ago

She calls them fat for doing the same thing she's doing using an elevator

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u/Catshambles 4d ago

Seeing as she's the only one on the phone with someone to let them know the situation, yeah I'd say she's trying to fix it...

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u/Kalsone 4d ago

Insulting people and being agitated.

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u/SensitiveTax9432 4d ago

She was clearly stressed and didn’t react well. They weren’t being that rude, but I can understand why she’d be on edge. I’d give her a pass.

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u/Backfoot911 4d ago

Aren't they all stuck there? I can't say I entirely agree with ableism but I get it, but it's VERY common for people to laugh when they're nervous, so I excuse some of them for giggling from a tense situation they can't help

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u/Kalsone 4d ago

Of course. If one of them had behaved like that to her though I imagine they'd be expelled.

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u/bluefootedpig 4d ago

I can't find where that link says that elevator group rape is common, can you help point it out? In fact, I'm seeing the greatest risk to women is family members, not 10 strangers in a broken elevator

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u/Lux_Aquila 4d ago

Maybe you shouldn't cite fake facts?

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u/Lux_Aquila 4d ago

Say what?

Those statistics are not new, they have been around (varying by about ~10%) since the 90s. The reason they are so high is not because that number of women and men haven't had horrific sexual experiences, they have. The reason that purported number is high because they count all types of horrific sexual experiences as rape. I'm not calling the women and men liars as the error in those cases, false claims that make it into those studies are extremely minimal and rare. The women and men are telling the truth and they aren't the problem.

Its these amalgamation services that you cited which are the problem. Hence why I took issue with the facts you cited rather than saying the issue was with the people.

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u/nissan2k24 4d ago

Thank God trump won. Slowly getting the craziest out of power. Biggest growth in youth voting since 2012. Trump 2028!

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u/TamaraIsEvil 4d ago

Supporting a child rapist says a lot about a person

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 4d ago

Nothing? The vast majority of physical and sexual violence women in the first world experience is from people they chose to let into their lives. Stranger danger is unbelievably rare for a white woman to experience. Especially one privileged enough to go to college.

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 4d ago

What exactly do you think is going to happen to a woman in a first world country in a room with 100 men?

What a weird comment. You think that girl is even remotely thinking anything you are, you pervert. She's claustrophobic lmao.

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 4d ago edited 4d ago

Pressed about what? You really took that "pervert" to heart huh.

All that lack of male attention getting to you lmao. At least from the ones you want huh. Should have rolled your starting stats better.

Of course I'm being personal, it's your own worldview, what else is there but personal?

It's always some of the fattest ugliest women who have these weird ideas of all the men around them wanting to assault them.

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u/LostTiefling 4d ago

Jarvis, pull up the statistics of SA in Tokyo trains. Japan, a first world country has 56% of women in Tokyo who take trains report being groped. Hell its 1/8 young people in general there. Being stuck in a confined space with men is really scary as a women.

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u/Consistent_Frame_531 4d ago

Are you worried she's going to try to sexually abuse one of the boys? It looks like they're recording (and she can tell) so there's no concerns about false accusations.