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Chelsey’s lips twitched, hating the implication that being born female made you automatically guilty of something.
The poorer and darker a girl, the less funds and time the department allocated to her rescue—after
there are bad people everywhere. That the truth is these people are not strangers. They are the men who you sleep with, the men you work with, the men you raise. I wish this wasn’t what it means to be female—it is not a matter of if something bad will happen, but when.
sadly..
HERE IS A TIP FOR all the girls out there: Never let an abductor take you to a second location. And here are some tips for all the parents of girls out there: Make sure your daughters know there are bigger things to worry about than how much body hair they have, or who is taking whom to prom, or how many friends they have online. Teach them never to pull over onto the side of the road when someone flashes their lights. Or to walk into an alley next to a nightclub. Or ride their bike down the street in broad daylight. Or leave a motel room to find an unoccupied bathroom…
MAY YOU NEVER IGNORE YOUR GROWING SENSE OF DISQUIET.
People are conditioned to believe girls plus bad choices equals bad things. It’s a type of inoculation. Lead a good life, and nothing heinous will befall you.
Sexual assault is less about the act and more about domination.
Research correlates a man’s inability to show emotion to violent behavior.
Violent men are forged. They are made. All of this… all of it is preventable.
people in general, should spend less time protecting daughters and more time worrying about sons. The dangerous things boys do. How they might be raised differently.
For every one thousand cases of reported rape only seven lead to felony convictions.
did no one ever tell Lydia that the most dangerous thing in the world isn’t natural disasters or wars or weapons? It is unremarkable men with beautiful smiles and even bigger promises.
When will it be enough? How society accepts women dying at the hands of men.
