Egyptian Soapbox

Eradicating rape may very well be impossible. But as long as we continue to view it as a crime committed by an individual against another individual, absent of any social context, we will have little success in combating it. Women must feel fully entitled to public engagement and consensual sex—and if conservative and anti-feminist men continue to argue that women’s very public presence enables men to assault them, then perhaps they’re the ones who should be pressured to stay home.

Jon Stewart:
So female soldiers should just expect to be sexually assaulted?

Samantha Bee:
Well… female soldiers, gal reporters, lady doctors, teacherettes, aviatrixes… That’s just the way it is when you’re a woman intruding in a man’s world. We expect to be paid slightly less and raped slightly more.