Recovery

Rape Culture 2

When a 16 year old girl in Ohio was filmed being raped by two boys at a party, CNN reports commented about how tragic it was because the rapists could've been future star athletes, because God forbid we lose a future football star over something as silly as forcing yourself on an unconscious girl right?

You say that victims of sexual assault were asking for it, but was that eight year old girl asking for it when you offered to give her a ride home? Did her overalls provoke you?

Isn't it awful that we live in a world where 1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted but only 3% of rapists even spend a day in jail? That is rape culture.

You say a woman is "cold" because she didn't like him kissing her neck, but when he refused to stop, it's considered his "natural behavior." That is rape culture.

You say men who have been raped are "weak" but tell that to the former U.S marine, James Landrith, who was raped at the age of nineteen.

That is rape culture: thinking that sexual assault against women is "the norm." That is rape culture.

Rape culture is a lawmaker from Maine saying that if a woman has the right to abortion, than a man should have the right to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman.

It is the boys in my class laughing at this poem, and the word "rape" being a joke.

Rape is believing that a woman can't become pregnant as a result of rape, when in reality, 32,000 women in the U.S. become pregnant from rape every year.

So maybe we should stop saying "boys will be boys" and "she was asking for it" and start teaching men and women not to rape.