Rape Is Not A Gendered Crime

Raghul Chandrasekar
ILLUMINATION
Published in
15 min readOct 5, 2022

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Trigger warning: Rape, depression

I.

Story time.

Take a look at this Reddit thread by a woman who seems lost about what to do when she found out that her partner had drunk sex with someone else (it is a long read but, indulge me):

My boyfriend and I have been together for almost 5 years, starting in high school and all the way through college and part of grad school. We haven’t lived in the same place for most of our relationship, but we worked really hard to see each other whenever we could and we had

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Raghul Chandrasekar
ILLUMINATION

Writer. Reader. Philomath. Optimist. Figuring out life one article at a time at bitsoveratoms.substack.com