Take back the night
December 31, 2012  14:02
Every one of us shares in the crime as long as we continue to turn a blind eye or (worse) take it in our stride. Remember that rape is not really about sex '" it's more about the power that certain men (or animals?) want to wield over women. It's their way of "teaching us a lesson'.

Leading political voices, on the other hand, try to explain away the gruesomeness by laying the blame on victims themselves -- they wore jeans, they wore skirts, they went out late at night (9.30 pm -- late?), they work outside the home, they went out (horror of horrors!) in the company of a male friend. Read the blog
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