Viscous

I wrote this way back and it was somehow never published. Read with caution I was pissed.

A thousand voices,
typing, the click clicking of the keys drowns out the morality, drowns out the inner voice that screams out STOP,
a mob of ugly putrid opinions, pointing fingers, stones in hands ready to fling, but instead you use words,
slut, whore, tease, bitch, slut, prostitute, you wanted to be raped, you changed your mind, tease, slut whore, bitch,
you fling your stones with quiet abandon, you wrap your words with hate as you hide behind your screens,
shame on you,
shame on me,
shame on us all for letting our daughters grow up in a world that believes that what makes them worthy is between their legs,
that their voices, their words don't matter, that everything means yes, short skirt...yes, a smile yes, accepting a drink...yes, no...yes, NO...Yes...NO PLEASE STOP....YES ABSOLUTELY YES,
because why would we ever say no to you wonderful, powerful men,
we always mean yes because we are empty headed walking vaginas made exclusively for your pleasure,
how dare we say NO, how dare we even think it when our short skirts, and flirty behavior, and drunk maybe blacked out faces scream yes even when we scream NO,
protect our boys who take without asking from the worthless whores, from the teases who mean yes,
protect our boys from the six years of prison for only "twenty minutes of action",
protect our boys from the sluts and teases who change their minds,
protect our boys from just being boys, from being unable to control themselves because she dared to wear a short skirt,
she is an object,
she is a thing,
she is not a person,
there is no equality,
it is an illusion,
we are still objects,
and every time a boy gets a slap on the hand after raping a girl we prove once again that women, girls are still objects made strictly for your pleasure,
that we are not worthy,
that we are not worth the time it would take out of his life, that he is worth more because he has a penis.


Lately, everywhere I look there is an injustice against women. Girls being hounded or called sluts or threatened with rape for having a voice. Girls who cry rape who are called liars. Who are called names that are so bad I can't believe grown men would actually say it let alone scream it from the streets. I'm thankful I have sons. I'm terrified they will grow up to be one of these men. Men that see hard evidence of an assault and because the boy is rich, good looking and has a future let them go with a slap on the hand.
What about her future. What about the nightmares and years of therapy she will endure because of her pain.
If she were a child, would you look away so easily.
Pedophiles are the worst most deplorable human beings, but a college boy who rapes a girl only made a mistake or she was a tease.
What if she were younger.
You would not be so quick to look away, to call her names and pat him on the back. If she were younger you would grab your pickets and pitchforks, your torches and whips and walk the streets to hang the man that dare defile a child.
If she were a virgin would it make a difference?
Would you care more if that rape, was her first time?
Would if matter what color her skin was?
Would it matter if she were a boy?
It shouldn't matter.
He should pay.
He should be the one hounded and called names.
HE should be the one that is punished.