But we can’t keep this skeleton hidden in our closets anymore. Otherwise, 10 years from now when one of the many completely preventable suicides garners international attention and there’s nothing else to blame, we’ll be getting the “we didn’t know it was a problem” excuse from schools again. But we can’t wait for this to happen on its own, when we’re faced with ever growing problems in society that are being fed by people who grow up learning that a woman’s body is there for someone else’s pleasure (or to allow others to cause her pain). We have a society that has become so focused on victim blaming and slut-shaming that it doesn’t even register with us any more.
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