Women are victims. We are victims to a society that doesn’t care about our basic humans rights or our rights to justice when wrongs are done upon us.
We are in a society where statistically nearly 1 in 5 women are raped.
And those are reported statistics, because when we see another woman strong enough to speak up, willing to take that chance for justice in hopes the right thing will be done, it often isn’t.
She’s told she shouldn’t have been drinking.
She’s told her outfit was too revealing as if we should be shamed for managing to appeal to mens primal nature, as if they shouldn’t and can’t help themselves and as if they just don’t know better.
Because ‘boys will be boys’ right? Because it’s not as if the media glorifies sex and is constantly revealing the female body as a sexual object anyway …
So many women silence their voices and don’t ever speak up, in fear of facing the same injustices that others have been forced to face – seeing their rapists with only a short jail sentence, and sometimes not even that much.
What happened to women being drugged and raped being a crime?
Why are we rewarding men who rape and allowing the privilege of a short jail sentence or simply having to register as a sex offender?
Why are we not doing anything as a society to ensure the safety of our women?
From women walking down the street minding their own business being catcalled then being called whores and sluts when not appreciating it, having to fear for their lives if they reject the wrong man.
And even if he doesnt hurt her physically, saying “whatever, you’re an ugly bitch anyway.”
Why have we isolated women and forced them into silence for wanting to be seen and treated like humans instead of a sexual object only existing for male gratification, for male pleasure?
It’s because as a society we’ve turned a blind eye to it. We all have allowed women to be isolated because no one will speak up and stand for what is right, so justice doesn’t work. These crimes continue to happen, because people stand by and do nothing.
Though that is true, i never saw myself as a victim until I became part of the statistic myself.
Changing your mentality is not always enough – especially when you have to be raised in such a way that you need to always be in fear just because of your gender.
To be afraid to be alone.
To not have certain things because you’re a woman.
To not be out alone at night.
To always be nice to men – because if not, they may rape or may kill you if you just aren’t interested …
I also wrote this a while ago – and nothing has changed.
—lexy nicole
Flommist Lexy Nicole is a model, musician, and writer. Copyright © 2016⁄19 Lexy Nicole. Pictured: Osmar Schindler, Muscles (cropped), 1907, source.
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