winding whirlpools...
Friday, November 03, 2006
Before someone comments about it, yes, I do realize that men get raped too. However, men haven't always been told that they could've prevented it if they'd just done/not done x.A lot has been said about how to prevent rape.Women should learn self-defense. Women should lock themselves in their houses after dark. Women shouldn't have long hair and women shouldn't wear short skirts. Women shouldn't leave drinks unattended. Fuck, they shouldn't dare to get drunk at all.instead of that bullshit, how about this :
if a woman is drunk, don't rape her.
if a woman is walking alone at night, don't rape her.
if a woman is drugged and unconscious, don't rape her.
if a woman is wearing a short skirt, don't rape her.
if a woman is jogging in a park at 5 am, don't rape her.
if a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you're still hung up on, don't rape her.
if a woman is asleep in her bed, don't rape her.
if a woman is asleep in your bed, don't rape her.
if a woman is doing her laundry, don't rape her.
if a woman is in a coma, don't rape her.
if a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don't rape her.
if a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don't rape her.
if a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don't rape her.
if your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don't rape her.
if your step-daughter is watching tv, don't rape her.
if you break into a house and find a woman there, don't rape her.
if your friend thinks it's okay to rape someone, tell him it's not, and that he's not your friend.
if your "friend" tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.
if your frat-brother or another guy at the party tells you there's an unconscious woman upstairs and it's your turn, don't rape her, call the police and tell the guy he's a rapist.
tell your sons, god-sons, nephews, grandsons, sons of friends it's not okay to rape someone.
don't tell your women friends how to be safe and avoid rape.don't imply that she could have avoided it if she'd only done/not done fill-in-the-blank.don't imply that it's in any way her fault.
don't let silence imply agreement when someone tells you he "got some" with the drunk girl.
don't perpetuate a culture that tells you that you have no control over, or responsibility for, your actions.
Liquid Music
I wrote this poem eons ago ..... left it amongst my many files to gather cobwebs.... until one day...someone encouraged me to bring em all up to see the face of the sun.....
Yellow light filters through
The tiny pores of a netted window
As I sit behind this
Mask of dotted happiness.
A mute witness,I watch,
eyelids not batting,
As rain paints her freshness
On every inch of canvas
That she can manage to find.
A restless warrior once,
I’m dumbfounded
At my calm surrender
To the liquid music overhead.
I lay down my defenses
As happiness makes his way
Across the empty room.
Our pulses beat in unison
And in tune with the
Foot tapping number
Playing outside.
We bow to a thunderous applause
And exchange knowing smiles.
He sticks his tongue out at me,
As I beckon him
To follow me into my dreams.
Yellow light filters through
The tiny pores of a netted window
As I sit behind this
Mask of dotted happiness.
A mute witness,I watch,
eyelids not batting,
As rain paints her freshness
On every inch of canvas
That she can manage to find.
A restless warrior once,
I’m dumbfounded
At my calm surrender
To the liquid music overhead.
I lay down my defenses
As happiness makes his way
Across the empty room.
Our pulses beat in unison
And in tune with the
Foot tapping number
Playing outside.
We bow to a thunderous applause
And exchange knowing smiles.
He sticks his tongue out at me,
As I beckon him
To follow me into my dreams.
