Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.
The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday life, yet we all act as if it__ something shocking and extraordinary whenever it hits the headlines. We remain silent, and so we condone it_Until rape, and the structures _ sexism, inequality, tradition _ that make it possible, are part of our dinner-table conversation with the next generation, it will continue. Is it polite and comfortable to talk about it? No. Must we anyway? Yes.___o protect our children, we must talk to them about rape
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The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday life, yet we all act as if it__ something shocking and extraordinary whenever it hits the headlines. We remain silent, and so we condone it_Until rape, and the structures _ sexism, inequality, tradition _ that make it possible, are part of our dinner-table conversation with the next generation, it will continue. Is it polite and comfortable to talk about it? No. Must we anyway? Yes.___o protect our children, we must talk to them about rape
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