To end rape culture, support victims and jail perpetrators
What you need to know:
- In prisons, most women and men are raped by the prison wardens and by inmates.
- The major places where these occurs are in prisons, college campuses, schools, homes and even in work places.
Behind a world where everything shines, where everything seems perfect; therein lies the most painful secrets, bitterness shame, revenge and high-flying crimes. Scars too deep within.
How often do we get to know or understand other people’s internal welfare, without basically judging from the fake smiles on their faces? How often do we publicly address the cases of rape and suicide?
We are all raising a “silent suffering generation’’. A generation that is full of pain, bitterness, shame and revenge. Rape culture has been embraced, whereby, the boy child also suffers but he is silenced. We should get to understand that “Culture doesn’t make the people; people make the culture’’.
Rape and suicide occur everyday. The major places where these occurs are in prisons, college campuses, schools, homes and even in work places.
In prisons, most women and men are raped by the prison wardens and by inmates. They do this with impunity. In homes, you will find neighbours, friends and relatives sexually assaulting children.
Adults are also raped. For instance, the case of rape in marriage. In work places, bosses abuse their subordinates. In campuses, students rape colleagues.
Victims often commit suicide as a way of dealing with the pain. All this is happening because of negligence, ignorance and irresponsibility on the part of leaders and the parents.
In campuses, high schools and workplaces you will find people who are lesbians, gays, and drug addicts but the question is: Do we ever get to question the causes of such behaviours? We should stop blaming most of these bad behaviours on genes or being possessed.
Let’s all open our eyes. These people need help. Most of them are victims of rape, and as a way of dealing with the pain and shame that comes with being abused, they end up in such behaviours.
Rapists should not go scot free. Let’s all fight to untie this knot of pain and shame by helping end the bitterness in rape victims.
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