Jogamation

It’s not absurd that this has to be said, this will always have to be said as long as there are new people being added to the world who don’t know what came before them.

What’s absurd is that it’s 2012 and this isn’t already the standard approach. Victim-blaming is even more asinine when we are instilling the psychology of victimhood before any victimization.

Well, perhaps I’m a bit loose with “before”. A permanent state of threat-of-violence IS victimization. 

Rape culture is, literally, terrorism. 

Where is the fucking War on Rapists? 

Where are your priorities? Property over People? Fear over Reality? 

The game of musical chairs called Blame?

Fuck SOPA, PIPA, et cetera, and the ignorant beliefs in “intellectual property”.

Fuck territorialism and delusional fears of resource theft.

Fucking get your shit together Society, you’re too old and know better than this.

We can look into the depths of space and see creation, ignite the fire of the stars on our own planet, extract the earth’s veins and make vehicles that shuttle us across the whole globe, beam the signals from a brain across the internet and control another being’s body, and yet we can’t figure out how to discuss the things that affect us the most. 

There is no person on earth unaffected by sexual violence. If you think you are that person, try to think about how a culture that blames the people who are harmed makes it inherently problematic to just share that with YOU, even if it is you harmed. That’s before you even react, before you break that trust, before you ignorantly say something hurtful, before you deny the effect of psychology on yourself.

A culture that says what people can and can’t do with their own bodies, that blames people for the actions against them, that reinforces continuously hierarchical power structures in every daily interaction, that is a culture that isolates everyone for everyone else.

And who benefits from that? Rapists. 

The first step is to take responsibility. Say to yourself: I have furthered the terrorism of rape, through my direct actions, my indirect actions, and my inactions. Say to yourself: When I encourage rape through my actions, I give rapists power; no matter how small my part is, I contribute to the global problem. 

Take the responsibility to say: Rapists are the only ones who cause rape; Rape allies, be they aware or not, enable rape, and I will participate no more. By my actions, by denying rapists the cover of misdirected blame, by openly declaring to stand against rapists and their allies, I take my power back from the Rapists and redirect it Against Rape.

Take the initiative to say: I declare my self, my strength and my weakness, my entire being, Against Rape, and I will fight even against myself when necessary, to eradicate the cultural programming that lurks within before I allow harm to myself or another being.