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Schrödinger's Rapist is a term coined by novelist and PI Phaedra Starling to describe the experience of women encountering unfamiliar men in a society with rape culture, where any man could potentially be a rapist. The term was first used in Shapely Prose guest blog post Schrödinger's Rapist: Or a Guys' Guide to Approaching Women Without Being Maced.

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  • Schrödinger's Rapist is a term coined by novelist and PI Phaedra Starling to describe the experience of women encountering unfamiliar men in a society with rape culture, where any man could potentially be a rapist. The term was first used in Shapely Prose guest blog post Schrödinger's Rapist: Or a Guys' Guide to Approaching Women Without Being Maced.
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  • Schrödinger's Rapist is a term coined by novelist and PI Phaedra Starling to describe the experience of women encountering unfamiliar men in a society with rape culture, where any man could potentially be a rapist. The term was first used in Shapely Prose guest blog post Schrödinger's Rapist: Or a Guys' Guide to Approaching Women Without Being Maced. The term Shrödinger's Rapist is an erroneous reference to an aspect of the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, namely the one where, until the box is opened, the cat inside is simultaneously both dead and alive. Similarly, as an example, a woman walking alone in the streets cannot determine whether an approaching man is an intending rapist or not until the encounter has reached its conclusion, so it logically follows that every man is both a rapist and not a rapist at the same time. Unlike the cat-in-poison-box thought experiment however, the Schrödinger's Rapist is a prolonged situation, since one rape-free encounter with a given man does not prove anything about his potential of raping later on. This even more true for the experience of women who know that the majority of rapes occur between people who know each other, and those aware of rapists employing grooming and similar tactics to gain social leverage against their victims.
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