It Doesn't Have to Be This Way: The Infuriating Reality of Womanhood

[Stargazer09]

5. Very well written

And unfortunately, so accurate.

Why do people expect this violence against women to happen? Well, because it always has. When is society going to realize that it needs to STOP? I don't know.

I'm encouraged by some of the things I've seen since Steubenville. The instructional video showing guys tucking a blanket around the drunk girl on the couch. The acknowledgment that being drunk does not equal giving consent; I'm even encouraged by the guys asking for clarification on that issue, because I know that it means that some of them really do want to do the right thing.

Unfortunately, the girl in the Steubenville case never received an apology. The media still focuses on the boys and their sob story, but never on what that poor girl has lost.

When I was raped in 1985, the police blew it off because I knew the guy and he didn't use a knife. Didn't matter that he was 75 pounds heavier than me and much stronger. I knew who he was, we had dated casually before, and he didn't use a weapon, so it was not rape. Now, it would be considered rape, so we've inched forward in the past 30 years.

We have a long way to go. But I am hopeful that we will get there someday.