Tuesday, 5 October 2010

I'm not your punching bag, emotional canvass or possession.

Violence against women is so normal. We don't even realize we've been violated.

One in three women in the world are abused, either physically or sexually in their life.

One in three.

Just think of your own family, Your Mother, Your Sister, Your Grandmother. One of them has been, in some way harmed. Maybe even all of them. I've been physically abused, maybe even you have too. We blame the women, (Oh she deserved it) We play it down, (Oh it was just a little smack, no big) we dismiss it as not having happened (Oh there we no bruises so it doesn't count, oh it wasn't sexual it doesn't count)

One in three. It's disgusting that this level of violence is so prevalent in life, in the world, in every shadow and walk of life that it's not even an epidemic, not something new, almost dauntingly unchangeable but it is nothing more then a fact of life.

You have a vagina? The universe is organized to punish you for that mistake. Women in areas are stripped of ever right you can imagine, treated not even as property (as something you own is usually respected because hey, it's yours) but as less then garbage, as something not even worthy to be existing in the same space as you. It is sin to be born a woman, it is wrong to have woman parts, we are naturally evil and wrong and inherently bad and unequal even though we make up 50% of the population somehow we're the minority and unwanted, unneeded, unacceptable.

I'm one of these women.

And I'm really fucking sick of it.

It's not even men that are doing this. Violence against women by women is even greater, stronger and more vicious than that of men. Mother in laws punishing their daughter in laws. Mothers teaching their girl-children their place in the world, women slut-shaming and propagating myths about themselves and putting restrictions on their own sexuality and self expression.

We are our own worst enemy most of the time.

We are not a minority, we are a people. We are One. We are Beautiful, We are Perfect.

I have a Vagina and fucked if I'm going to be ashamed or made ashamed of it. It doesn't need to be trimmed, teased, tucked, plucked, shaved, scented, primped or bejewelled.
It doesn't need to be pricked, cut, beat, hid, bashed or belittled.

VAGINA'S ON MOTERCYCLES BITCHES!

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