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It’s not fun to talk about rape. It’s a gut-wrenching and uncomfortable topic. In most cases it’s easier to wish it away. Believe that there really is a way to shut the “whole thing down.”
But there isn’t. And our society needs a reality check.
“One of the Steubenville witnesses testified that ‘I didn’t know exactly what rape was. I always pictured it as forcing someone’ and that contributed to why he did not intervene when he saw was his friends were doing to the victim. Clearly society is not teaching something – rather, several things – be it respect of women, ‘no’ meaning ‘no,’ or that a passed out, incoherent drunk girl is incapable of consent. Passing out after one-beer-too-many does not, in fact, imply ‘yes.’ Go figure.”
Read more from Sweet Lemon Magazine’s on why Rick Ross’ rape problem is all of our problem, here.
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