r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/saving-jane • 2h ago
Culture & Society Why do people clutch their pearls over who goes into the women's restroom, but laugh about men r*ping other men in prisons? NSFW
I don't mean to compare public restrooms to prisons, what I'm trying to make sense of is why is a man "dropping the soap" in prison and being raped by inmates joked about but a trns person using the women's restroom is a mortal sin to some people? Or even a man using the women's restroom if the men's is out-of-order or full. I don't understand this double standard.
I realize women experience sexual violence at a much greater rate than men (~21% and ~3.5%, respectively), but the vast majority of people are not rapists, and rape is no bueno, regardless of sex or gender.