"Rape" in the Digital Age

Woman Live-Blogged Her Own Rape on Instagram

"This is the story of Amber Amour, a feminist and social activist who live-blogged the aftermath of her rape on Instagram and social media. She was assaulted in the shower of a South African hostel while touring the country on a rape education campaign."

Interestingly, she alleged being raped by a room mate in 2014 but the charges were dismissed, and "says that she is a Vegansexual, meaning that she only has sex with other vegans" ("if a man lies he's a vegan to have consensual sex wit hher, is it also rape in her pov?").


The comments on Facebook are interesting. And curiously, virtually all the "victim blaming" ones quoted here are from women (including from some real rape victims):

"So, a complete stranger asked her if she wanted to take a shower with him and she agreed to it?! I understand that no MEANS no and everything. As a woman, I wouldn't take a shower with a complete stranger and expect nothing to happen. Clearly, she wasn't using common sense. This chick lives in a dream world where everything is butterflies and rainbows, doesn't she? I'm not sticking up for the guy who did this to her. She's a moron for not protecting herself!"

"This offends me as a vegan transgender hipster Native-American-Indo-Chinese hybrid alien agnostic-atheist German engineer who vapes fairtrade organic decaffeinated compressed and hydrated extra-protein soy breast milk on the regular and does Hindi Kama Sutra naked crossfit yoga 5 times per week. I'm also a nonbinary trigender genderqueer male feminist and identify myself as a pastafarian pansexual genderfluid Apache helicopter dog of mega multi alpha beta gamma delta omega combo god of hyper death who's in a polygamous polyamorous relationship to the chihuahua which helped me cross the border of Mexico because it hates Donald Trump. My dog also walks me to the park and doggy styles me, if you find that weird you're an ignorant arrogant homophobic gender-assuming globaphobic bloodthirsty gun-loving cisgender pansexual bestial sexist racist incestuous white-previlege misogynistic biased objectified raped privileged Nazi slave owner terrorist lesbian."

"She said yes to showering with him.... thats basically saying she wants it. But last minute calls rape then blogs about it only MOMENTS AFTER. sounds like someones looking for attention... but what do i know. Lol"

"No one is confused
1. She kissed him
2. She knew he was drunk
3. She knew he wanted to hook up with her
4. She went to an open shower area with him knowing all this
I get that the showers at her hotel were cold But she needs to take some responsibility also She willingly put herself in a situation that she could have 100% avoided. Then to document every step of the process including taking a pic of her rap kit??? Im sorry but a victim of rape doesn't think about or have time to post it to social media period."

"So she got in a shower with a strange dude she kissed and is surprised she got raped?"

"I have been drugged and raped and nearly died from the drugs , but even i had to stop at the part where she said Yes to the shower offer i mean what in the actual fuck stupid cunt ! Stories like this only make it harder for womens real stories of rape to be taken seriously"

"I wish people would realize the difference between rape and regret."

"as she was on a sexual assault prevention tour it all just seems too convenient."

"It's weird that you can now consent to and set up a rape. Learn new things every day... She took pictures of it. Anticipating rape before it happened? Maybe I'm wrong but that picture of her on getting raped in the shower seemed a bit odd and set up"

"most rape victims are to distraught in order to jump on social media minutes later. This is a cry for help but not sure the help she warrants."

""Because my water was cold" come on.. I've taken ice cold water showers and felt needles... no way I'm showering with a drunk for warmth."

"I've been in the medical field a long time and I've never known someone to kiss someone, take a shower with them, claim rape, and then document the investigation process all the while teaching about rape."

"This article makes me feel ashamed to be a rape victim"