Roebuck concludes her letter by insisting that she refuses “to be defined by this” – and goes on to pen an anti-rape manifesto for men and women everywhere to abide by.

She hopes that this will help “anyone still struggling with the fact that no matter what a woman does with her life, she does not live asking to be raped” to finally understand the meaning of consent.

Her anti-rape manifesto continues:

As a human being, I have a right to live my life without my sexuality as a woman being used as justification by men to touch me or sexually benefit from my body.
As a human being, I have the right to go out.
As a human being, I have the right to drink, to talk to people, to wear what I want, to go where I want, unaccompanied, alone, with a group, with no group, to live my life.
As a human being, I have the right to have sex if I want to, and that right is identical to that of a man.
As a human being, I also have the right to say no.
If I am unconscious, if I have consumed alcohol, if you are naked with a condom on your penis and I have already said yes but then I change my mind, that does not translate to consent and sex beyond this point is RAPE.

Roebuck’s letter has since gone viral on social media, where it has been praised by many as being “one of the most inspiring things” they have ever read.

Woman pens powerful open letter to the man who tried to rape her