igather:

ihatethismess:

To say that a rapist should be raped is to say that rape is a legitimate act of revenge and justice. It is to establish a set of circumstances under which rape is acceptable.

Rape as a form of revenge is already a too common aspect of our world. Many rapes are committed for precisely that reason. Rape is used as an act of “revenge” against a partner for being unfaithful. It’s used as revenge against women who reject sexual advances by men who feel they have the right to their bodies, or who are otherwise “being a bitch.” Rape is wielded as a “punishment” for dressing a certain way, drinking, talking back, working as a sex worker, and much, much more.

Rape is a violent crime for which there is never an excuse. Unlike with murder and assault, there is never such a thing as raping in self-defense. Everyone has a right to their own body — this has to be a basic staple of the anti-sexual violence movement. No one deserves to have their body violated, ever — no matter what they’ve done that might be interpreted by someone as provocation, no matter how angry they’ve made us, no matter how inhuman we perceive them to be, no matter how little else we feel they deserve, no matter how horrible of a person they have been.