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Aug
22
What This Woman Wants
I came across this awesome site a few days ago that is working to give women a voice this election season.
This Is What Women Want is your chance to cut through the spin and tell the media, the candidates and the world exactly what you want this election season. Let’s demonstrate how diverse we are in thought, action, and experience. Let’s uncover what we have in common. Let’s amplify our own and each others’ voices until they cannot be ignored.
This Is What Women Want, brought to you by Center for New Words, is full of what women really want and expect from their representatives. So what does this woman want? Real justice for rape victims.
It is appalling that a person carrying an ounce of weed gets a tougher prison sentence than a person convicted of rape. Women are never “asking” to be raped and by eliminating terms from being used during trials, badgering a woman who had the courage to report her rape, and ultimately giving a rapist a less severe sentence than someone being made an example of in this imaginary “war on drugs” makes women, in particular, more apprehensive about coming forward and pressing charges against a rapist. Women make up a significant part of this country and by treating them like liars and second class citizens, you are helping a widespread pandemic.
Women never “asked” to be raped, it does not matter what they were wearing, how much alcohol they consumed or what her “body language” said to her rapist. It does not matter if that woman is married, is a virgin or what her previous sexual history is. Give women the security and safety they need in order to come forward and report their rape. Stop promoting silence!
What do you want? As a woman, what do you feel passionately about? What needs to change? Go tell them!
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