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this isn’t okay

Linda M. Crate

you say
that a woman should close her legs
if she doesn’t want raped,
but how well does
that work when he’s stronger than you
are or doesn’t require your open legs to rape
you?
i wonder,
do you have a brain in the right head of yours?
you’re like brock turner’s father
insisting his son shouldn’t be punished for
“twenty minutes of action”
instead of showing any empathy or compassion
to the true victim of the crime,
and i want to know why
rape culture exists
because it needs to die here and now and forever more;
i want to know why
to this very day
women are seen as property and sexual slaves and nothing
more than a body
yet are not recognized for their accomplishments or their souls—
in sports
women aren’t even taken seriously
being told to twirl around or being criticized for their hair
or not even being acknowledged by their names or
even acknowledged;
and yet people say that women have it better
that women have more rights—
more rights than whom
or what
exactly?
i want to know why society allows this
why any of this is accepted
because it shouldn’t be.

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