Seriously, can somebody please give me a positive association for this country? If it’s not car-jackings in Jo’burg, it’s growing up amidst the global embargoes in place because of apartheid. Not to mention what the accent does to my brain – it really is like tinfoil on a filling sometimes.
Is patriarchal society really an excuse for 1 in 4 men committing rape? We’re not talking about in the midst of civil war either (and I don’t think rape as a weapon is ever, ever excusable. But hey, it’s cheaper than bullets, right?)
It’s rare in this over-exposed, media-junkie life of mine that a news item can make me feel sick to the stomach. This managed it from the headline and it only got worse. I struggle with the blanket ideologies of feminism, but one thing I really feel we still have to fight for is better and more effective prosecution of rape.
I’m lucky to have the life that I do, working in a ‘man’s job’ with nary a comment being passed. I honestly thought equality was within our grasp and in so many ways it could be.
As long as men can inflict this on women, we’ll never be equal. That’s as wrong as it is terrifying, and I never thought I’d be in a place to admit that.
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