Sunday, November 13, 2011

About RAPE!!! I'm "OVER IT"

I am over rape.
I am over rape culture, rape mentality, rape pages on Facebook.
I am over the thousands of people who signed those pages with their real names without shame.
I am over people demanding their right to rape pages, and calling it freedom of speech or justifying it as a joke.
I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke and I am over being told I don't have a sense of humor, and women don't have a sense of humor, when most women I know (and I know a lot) are really fucking funny. We just don't think that uninvited penises up our anus, or our vagina is a laugh riot.
I am over how long it seems to take anyone to ever respond to rape.
I am over Facebook taking weeks to take down rape pages.
I am over the hundreds of thousands of women in Congo still waiting for the rapes to end and the rapists to be held accountable.
I am over the thousands of women in Bosnia, Burma, Pakistan, South Africa, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Afghanistan, Libya, you name a place, still waiting for justice.
I am over rape happening in broad daylight.
I am over the 207 clinics in Ecuador supported by the government that are capturing, raping, and torturing lesbians to make them straight.
I am over one in three women in the U.S military (Happy Veterans Day!) getting raped by their so-called "comrades."
I am over the forces that deny women who have been raped the right to have an abortion.
I am over the fact that after four women came forward with allegations that Herman Cain groped them and grabbed them and humiliated them, he is still running for the President of the United States.
And I'm over CNBC debate host Maria Bartiromo getting booed when she asked him about it. She was booed, not Herman Cain.
Which reminds me, I am so over the students at Penn State who protested the justice system instead of the alleged rapist pedophile of at least 8 boys, or his boss Joe Paterno, who did nothing to protect those children after knowing what was happening to them.
I am over rape victims becoming re-raped when they go public.
I am over starving Somalian women being raped at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, and I am over women getting raped at Occupy Wall Street and being quiet about it because they were protecting a movement which is fighting to end the pillaging and raping of the economy and the earth, as if the rape of their bodies was something separate.
I am over women still being silent about rape, because they are made to believe it's their fault or they did something to make it happen.
I am over violence against women not being a #1 international priority when one out of three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime -- the destruction and muting and undermining of women is the destruction of life itself.
No women, no future, duh.
I am over this rape culture where the privileged with political and physical and economic might, take what and who they want, when they want it, as much as they want, any time they want it.
I am over the endless resurrection of the careers of rapists and sexual exploiters -- film directors, world leaders, corporate executives, movie stars, athletes -- while the lives of the women they violated are permanently destroyed, often forcing them to live in social and emotional exile.
I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you?
You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why aren't you standing with us? Why aren't you driven to the point of madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?
I am over years and years of being over rape.
And thinking about rape every day of my life since I was 5-years-old.
And getting sick from rape, and depressed from rape, and enraged by rape.
And reading my insanely crowded inbox of rape horror stories every hour of every single day.
I am over being polite about rape. It's been too long now, we have been too understanding.
We need to OCCUPYRAPE in every school, park, radio, TV station, household, office, factory, refugee camp, military base, back room, night club, alleyway, courtroom, UN office. We need people to truly try and imagine -- once and for all -- what it feels like to have your body invaded, your mind splintered, your soul shattered. We need to let our rage and our compassion connect us so we can change the paradigm of global rape.
There are approximately one billion women on the planet who have been violated.
ONE BILLION WOMEN.

I STOLE THIS POST, FROM A BLOG REPOSTED BY ROSIE ODONNEL. I STOLE IT BECAUSE I AGREE WITH IT COMPLETELY. THERE IS NO JUSTICE FOR THE PERSON ON THE RECIEVEING END OF RAPE. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK?

Thanks for your time,
Christy

9 comments:

  1. Christy, I think rape is an awful thing. I'm not sure I'll ever be over it.

    Thanks for helping draw attention to this big problem in our world.

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  2. Thanks for reading my blog, Arron ;~*) People who've never been in that position, just don't understand. (I hate the word "victim ") The Victim is usually the one who had to defend him/herself or their actions, when they do finally work up the courage to tell someone. I'm just tired of defending the actions of my 2 year old self, and again the actions of my 15 year old self. I guess that that's actually, what I'm over...

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  3. Very good blog, Christy. I am not familiar with the rape pages you spoke of..thank God. But I agree...rape is horrible, and should NEVER be glorified or accepted.

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  4. By the way...keep up the blogging!! ;) you have a great voice, and great things to say!!

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  5. Thanks for taking the time to read it, my FRIEND ;~*) My hope, in writing it, was for those who havnt ever experienced it to just be more sensitive when someone shares there experience with you. Don't assume that there "making it up" because the person they are telling you DID this horrible thing to them is INNOCENT because they are "too nice of a person to have done this", (charm is how they gain your trust to get you in a compromising position, POUNCE, them convince you not to tell.) 

    OR...this "GREAT GUY" steals a woman, from her husband in VIETNAM, even though she has a brand new BABY, and he "Loves her, BAGGAGE and all". Blah...BLAH...BLAH-he just has them BOTH right where he wants them. 
    The woman is SO grateful that he accepts her baggage, that she NEVER tells him "NO" or "STOP IT"! She can't TELL or leave him, or she will be admitting to a HUGE  MISTAKE. 
    He has the CHILD right where he wants it because ; 1) the mother feels like I described above, which makes it so easy for him. 2) The TODDLER doesn't understand that it's wrong because the WORLD hasn't told them yet that it is WRONG yet. 3) When the child does talk to MOM about it, the MOTHER doesn't want the WORLD to know this TERRIBLE secret, so she tells her, "Oh Honey. He's just your DADDY, and he loves you". Smiles and says, "That's how Daddy's show you that they love you. Don't tell anyone. It's like when you go to the bathroom. You don't tell everyone about that. It's a PRIVATE thing,  kind of like that. "

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  6. "The Devil has many faces", remember that? It's true...if someone "shares" stories like this with you, don't assume that they are making this up for attention, (I do know that their ARE some people like this) at LEAST think about what they are saying and entertain the possibility that it might be true. They don't ALWAYS want you to jump into action, sometimes...they just need for SOMEONE to tell them that they're not crazy, it WASN'T their fault, and to believe that the person they just told you about IS A BAD PERSON if they did this horrible thing.They, usually it's not because they want some kind of JUSTICE for themselves. They are trying to keep this from happening to another person, at the hands of their molester, rapist, or attacker.
    SIMPLE as that...;~*)

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  7. Very well said. Preach it, Christy.

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    1. Thanks Sis;~*) I didn't even know that you'd found my blog. Lol

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