This is an older piece but this issue with Facebook
certainly is not new....
"Eve Ensler, over at the Huffington Post, includes
the Facebook rape page campaign as part of a piece entitled ‘Over it’:
Eve Ensler, over at the Huffington Post, includes the
Facebook rape page campaign as part of a piece entitled ‘Over it’:
I am over rape.
I am over rape culture, rape mentality, rape pages on
Facebook.
I am over the thousands of people who signed those pages
with their real names without shame.
I am over people demanding their right to rape pages, and
calling it freedom of speech or justifying it as a joke.
I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke
and I am over being told I don’t have a sense of humor, and women don’t have a
sense of humor, when most women I know (and I know a lot) are really fucking
funny. We just don’t think that uninvited penises up our anus, or our vagina is
a laugh riot.
I am over how long it seems to take anyone to ever respond
to rape.
I am over Facebook taking weeks to take down rape pages.
Ensler goes on to cite the plight of thousands of women in
Congo, Bosnia, Burma, Pakistan, South Africa, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Haiti,
Afghanistan, Libya, ‘still waiting for their rapists to be held accountable’;
the torture of lesbians in Ecuador, the women in the US military getting raped
by their colleagues and many other instances, and states:
We need to OCCUPYRAPE in every school, park, radio, TV
station, household, office, factory, refugee camp, military base, back room,
night club, alleyway, courtroom, UN office.
We need people to truly try and imagine — once and for all —
what it feels like to have your body invaded, your mind splintered, your soul
shattered. We need to let our rage and our compassion connect us so we can
change the paradigm of global rape.”
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