Magdi Jacobs

that's funny because i recognize the man on the other side of those posts. i'm the same age as platner & was also online, talking about rape, but from the POV of a victim. platner's comments didn't occur in a vacuum. they were made at the same time as this Obama admin PSA.

As a survivor of rape myself, I am horrified at how quickly men & women are prepared to throw another victim/survivor under the bus. Unless YOU are a survivor, you have no idea how difficult it is to come forward. How your brain works to make yourself feel like IT WAS YOUR FAULT.

It’s Women’s History Month. Rather than post factoids I’m just gonna post a picture and a name and y’all can google why they’re important. Knowledge for you without a lot of free labor from me. Win win. Today’s prompt is Delores Huerta (you should know WHY I picked her today)

@cmichaelbelle @Desichica2005 ❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much my friend. this means the world to me.

@magi_jay @Desichica2005 I knew you were strong as hell before this admission. I only admire you more for your inner strength and ability to survive the Maelstrom you were put through. Respect.

I'm 42. I was gang-raped at 19. Which means I've lived 23 years on this planet with an experience few people understand. Then, when I thought I was truly done with reliving *that* shit, at 38, I started experiencing domestic violence. An experience that, as a stranger-rape victim, I never would have really understood. No matter how much I put myself in those shoes. I knew a lot. I knew more than most. But I still didn't know it all. Rape opened up a whole world of understanding for me that few others share; then domestic violence: here's a whole other world I had no idea existed. You don't know what it is to experience any of these things until you really fucking know. That's what we survivors go through every day of our god damned lives. Not just the pain of violence. But the pain of you not knowing while you pretend to know so fucking much. It's irritating, to say the least.

@magi_jay Yeah it’s obviously dishonest but also such a weird attempt at a defense: “when I have a shitty day I think nasty things about women who endure sexual violence”

@magi_jay Can you guys imagine if, like, 10% of this power was used for elevating women instead of contorting themselves to explain the bad acts of men?

@LionelArtomG @SchoolBondLib I laughed 😂

@magi_jay @SchoolBondLib He was at war, but the worst day of his life was fighting with some rando on Reddit?

i'm profoundly irritated that he thinks anyone would accept that "the worst day in his life" was the day he logged into reddit to post this

@mistergeezy @KaivanShroff greg, you're incorrigible 😂

@KaivanShroff Big feet.

brown boy, white tie

I want someone to ask Graham Platner on camera why, on the worst day of his life, he chose to go debate rape on reddit. Why was it the worst day and why did he respond in that specific way? Seems like a logical question to me.

@KaivanShroff One could draw inferences, but they wouldn't be flattering.

@magi_jay Also…why was it his worst day? Any context to make the claim credible?

I cared WAY more about the Nazi tattoo than I did about the rape comments until Platner started *obviously lying* about the rape comments, btw. That's not to say I now care about the Nazi tattoo less. Now I care about both.

I've got enough sexual violence under my belt that I see a "bitches asked for it" post and I'm mechanically like, "ok, put it in the pile." But then you come out and lie about it? What the fuck?

or please tell me your own hypotheses about what the possible connection could be. i'm legitimately curious.

there is one explanation for why a man on the worst day of his life would specifically log into reddit to post about how women shouldn't get so drunk if they don't want to be raped, but i'm not saying it out loud. draw your own conclusions.

Platner's sincerely asking Maine to not judge him for the worst thing that he ever posted on the worst day of his life. Why was it the worst day of his life and why did he respond to this horrible day by saying women should wear kevlar panties to not get raped?

@greengrandma5 @TerryWatkinsJr1 i mean.. . logically. . . kinda seems like it! i'm not even saying i think that happened. it's just the only plausible explanation to being like, "this is the worst day of my life so now I'm going on reddit to talk about how women lie about rape." that's the logical assumption!

@magi_jay @TerryWatkinsJr1 He absolutely raped someone..

@magi_jay Ugh. Maine Dems, please don't do Susan Collins the biggest undeserved favor of her life. Don't vote for Platner.

@thunderbay63 yes. the oilery insincerity. perfectly put.

@magi_jay He gets disability benefits due to PTSD from his combat days. Weren't there any major casualty event days that were worse? With him, it's not just the past history. It's the oily insincerity with which he "apologizes" for it now. A disqualifying red flag. No credibility.