This episode is Part 2 of Anne's interview with Rachel Moran.Part 1: "Consent" Is Harming Us: What You Need to Know Part 2: Male Entitlement to Women's Bodies: The Ugly Truth (this episode)













"A Muslim woman from Romania, she'd only been living in Ireland for three weeks at the time that she was killed. A Middle Eastern man who had only been here a couple of months killed her. He killed her because she was a Muslim woman in the western world, sleeping with the infidels. This is what his whole thinking was. They arrested him the next day up in Belfast. He was arguing that they would have to grant him bail because they couldn't possibly pander to his religious convictions if they detained him in prison.



He didn't turn up there for a sexual encounter. He killed her in one minute, 57 seconds. That's how long it took him to arrive at her apartment, walk in, murder her, and leave under two minutes. It exemplifies the level and the nature of the brutality that we're dealing with."
- Rachel Moran, Founder of Space International



Male entitlement to women's bodies is a driving force behind domestic abuse, sexual violence, and homicide.



Rachel Moran is back on The BTR.ORG Podcast, taking a deep dive into the subject of male entitlement. Tune into the podcast and read the full transcript below for more.









Why Do Men Feel Entitled to Women & Girls?




"First of all, society breeds into it into men when they're boys. It doesn't just appear."



Rachel Moran, Founder of Space International




Rachel and Anne work through the origins of male entitlement. It's important to understand that male entitlement isn't biological - there is hope. Just as boys learn to feel ownership over women's bodies, they can learn to be respectful, caring, and observant of autonomy.



BTR.ORG Is Here For You



Your body is yours - but that's hard to understand when you've experienced sexual coercion, gaslighting, and intimate partner violence. Please seek safety and support. Consider attending a BTR.ORG Group Session today.



Full Transcript:



Anne (00:01):Welcome to BTR.ORG. This is Anne.



Today we have Rachel Moran back on today's episode. She's an Irish journalist and she's also the International Director of Policy and Advocacy at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. If you did not listen last week, start there and then join us here. You'll hear her entire bio. On the episode from last week, we were talking about the problems with consent as the genexplained and described in the general population and how that is in so many ways endangering victims of abuse. So we'll start there.



Rachel (02:05):Back again to that term consent. People will simply look at it and say, oh, but you consented. So what's the harm? Or, oh, but she consented. So she has nobody to blame but herself. And that's another really dangerous aspect of the term consent, the way that we use it to excuse, you know, so society uses it in all sorts of, of harmful ways, and that's one of them.



Marriage does NOT equal "consent"



Anne (02:32):Women who are in an abusive marriage, their husband is abusive. He could say that she consented to marriage.



Rachel (02:42):Yeah.