“…when people invoke “free speech” to defend a person’s right to take pictures of unwilling women and circulate those pictures on the internet, they are saying that it is okay to do so. They are saying that society has no legitimate interest in protecting a woman’s right not to have pictures of her body circulated without her consent. Her consent is not important. If all of the things that Michael Brutsch did, as “Violentacrez,” are protected free speech, then we are saying they are legitimate. Freedom of speech only protects the kinds of speech that some version of the social “we” has determined not to be violent. And by saying that what he did was protected, we are determining that those forms of violence against women are not, in fact, violent. And this matters because something so insubstantial as “culture” has a powerful impact on the actual practice of the law.”

[TW Rape, Suicide, Coercion, Emotional Abuse]

I once had a boyfriend tell me that our relationship would end if I didn’t have sex with him, that I was ugly, and that nobody else would have me. I’m a wrestler, and stronger than him, and he told me that was his only reason for not raping me. I…