This speaks. To the survivor of child sex abuse. To the teenage girl who learned quickly to agree to sex whether I wanted it or not lest I would be beaten. To the teenage mother who was judged for choices out of her hands. To the girl who when raped by her boyfriend and six of his friends did not speak because she had not been believed before. To the woman who ended up learning the hard way that she was more than what the world saw her as. To the woman who cried silently when the doctor who refused to give her a partial hysterectomy because it was using the surgery as birth control was told that not only did she need the surgery she could no longer survive but that if she got pregnant it would kill her. To the girl who was told that she should be a secretary because it was a girl’s job. Carpentry and any other job she found interesting were for men. This speaks to the mother of the girl who was terrified that her daughter would face the same thing that she did. This speaks.
I originally wrote this piece in October of 2016. In honor of the Weinstein verdict, I am sharing it again. Maybe, just maybe, our culture is starting to shift just a little.
Social media has been buzzing this morning with the reveal of Donald Trump’s misogynistic and vulgar comments about women in 2005. They are appalling, but for most women, negotiating these types of attitudes and behaviors is business as usual.
A few months ago after yet another shooting of an unarmed African American by the police, I was working out a possible blog post in my head. I wanted to try to articulate the analogy between how African American parents are forced to prepare their children for our racist culture with how women must prepare their girl children for American rape culture and had the revelation that I take this culture so much for granted that I rarely bother…
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Because of our biological makeup, men believe, that they can, touch, rape, molest, or do whatever they want to us, without consequences, because the societies of the world still, stayed, in the mindset of, blaming the victims…
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