When a 16 year old girl in Ohio was filmed being raped by two boys at a party<br/> CNN reporters talked about how tragic it was...

When a 16 year old girl in Ohio was filmed being raped by two boys at a party



CNN reporters talked about how tragic it was



because the rapists could have been star athletes



Because God forbid we lose a future football star



over something as silly as forcing oneself onto an unconscious girl



right?



You say that victims of sexual assault were asking for it



But was that 8 year old girl asking for it



When you told her you would give her a ride home?



Did her overalls provoke you?



Isn’t it awful we live in a world where 1 in 5 women



Have been sexually assaulted



But only 3% of rapists spend even a day in jail.



That is rape culture.



You say that a woman is “cold”



Because she didn’t like him kissing her neck,



but when he refused to stop



it’s considered his “natural behavior”.



That is rape culture.



You say that men who are victims of rape are “weak”



But tell that to former U.S. Marine



James Landrith,



Who was raped at the age of 19.



That is rape culture.



Thinking that sexual assault



Against women is “the norm”,



That is rape culture



Rape culture is a Lawmaker from Maine



Saying that if a woman has the right to abortion



Then a man should have the right



To use his superior strength



To force himself on a woman



It is the boys in my class laughing at this poem



And the word “rape”



Being their favorite joke.



Rape culture is believing that a woman can’t become pregnant



As a result of rape



When actually 32,000 women in the U.S.



Become pregnant from rape every year.



So maybe we should stop saying



“Boys will be boys”

and “She was asking for it”



And start teaching men and women



To not rape.

my protest poem for language arts 

(inspired by this post by wearethefourthwave)