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Humorous Normalization


You will never understand

Ignorant Boy.

You just made a rape joke

do women look like toys?

Let's start with the misogyny, more common than you'd think.

Hatred based on biology

leads to a drug in her drink!

She later gets assaulted by some random-ass man,

who ruins her life every way he possibly can.

You think this is a joke, something at which you want to poke.

I don't see how you can laugh when you can't see the other half.

In third grade I was made into simply an Ass to squeeze

Oh geeze!

You still don't get it?

You don't understand that every day I worry.

Worry that one day I will be the 1 out of 6 that screams and kicks but cannot overcome

By Gum!

Young Girls are especially at risk! 

Tsk Tsk, that's awful, but let's not talk about it, 

let's just make a joke to distract from this shit.

But outside your man cave, your little safe space,

Reality beckons,

Truth is, rape happens every 98 seconds. 

 

 

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