157 Quotes About Rape-culture

मुझे गर्व था कि मैं खड़ा था,पर कुछ मर्दों ने मुझे जबरन बैठा दिया। मर्द न रहा, अब नामर्द बना दिया।

Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

Much of the atrocities that are committed towards Arab women occur partly because the victim does not know that she has a basic right for her body to be hers, for her privacy to be respected and for her education to be a necessity not a privilege she receives if it is financially possible after her brother has been educated.

Her friends used to tell her it wasn't rape if the man was your husband. She didn't say anything, but inside she seethed; she wanted to take a knife to their faces.

Denial forces victims to retreat in lifeless existence, dieing in the shadows of buried trauma and painful memories.

One in four girls will experience sexual abuse by the time she is sixteen, and 48 percent of all rapes involve a young woman under the age of eighteen. It’s not surprising then, that in a society where sexual abuse of young women is rampant, many women never share their stories. They remain hidden and invisible.

Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effect at all, should begin early in grade school.

The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection.

If telling men "don't rape" instead of telling women "don't get raped", is like telling thieves "don't steal" instead of home owners to "lock your houses", why don't we hear more victims of home invasion being told "you got what you deserved for having such a beautiful house on display for everyone to see" ???