16 Days of Activism...

I was appalled by an article I read in the Herald the other day; parents were protecting the man who raped their daughter in order to avoid destroying relations. “What the dickens” was my first thought, a man known to you and your daughter violates her in a terrible manner that will scar her for the rest of her life. You should be glad you know who he is because now the law can have its way with him the same way he had his way with your daughter. Instead of being right in the forefront of the pursuit of justice you are going to stand there and protect him, protect this animal that has no regard for your daughter, her health or her future.

You read right I referred to the rapist as an animal and I make no apologies for the name calling.  There is no humanity in sexually assaulting another individual. As far as I am concerned, and my concern goes very far, any individual male or female that forces themselves on another doesn’t only deserve to go to prison for a long time they also need extensive counselling and possibly a psychiatric evaluation because their issues are deep seated, dark and twisted.

What are these relations that they seek to protect, these relations that are so important that the only legal form of recompense for your daughter is side-lined? I say legal form of recompense because in my overactive imagination it is excusable for the father of a rape victim to want to do a number of illegal things to perpetrator, murder not excluded.

Calls were made once for the castration of rapists and I would gladly carry that picket any day anywhere because rape is a sure sign that you have no idea what to do with that part of your anatomy and therefor you can do without it.

The only reason I sound angry is because I am.

Yesterday marked the last day of the 16 days of activism against gender based violence but let us all be reminded that the fight is not only fought within these 16 days, the fight is fought everyday.