Rape Culture
Every human being has an unassailable right to absolute control over his or her own body. Period. No questions. No modifiers. No extenuating circumstances. Ever.
Every 21 minutes a rape is reported in India, but some of the country’s politicians still don’t take the crime seriously. As the country continues to mourn the brutal killings of two girls, ages 14 and 15, who last week were found raped and hanged from a tree, a member of the prime minister’s ruling party shared some disturbing thoughts on rape.
This weekend marks the six-year anniversary of my assault and rape in Belfast. It's not the kind of anniversary you tend to celebrate with greeting cards, cake, or presents (or frankly, announce on The Huffington Post). But at the same time, it's an anniversary which I find impossible to overlook.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
I, too, went to Harvard, and years later (when I least expected it), I was raped. Ever since that day in April 2008 -- when I was pushed into the mud by a violent 15-year-old boy -- I've been thinking a lot about how our society handles the problem of rape.
What the Gorgas represent is a backlash to consent that's become shockingly trendy.
I started watching Breaking Bad late this summer, but before I started I already had a good idea of the characters and plot -- so the scene came as a shock. If this main character raped, or at the very least sexually assaulted, his wife, shouldn't I have heard about it? Why don't we discuss the fact that Walter White sexually assaulted his wife?