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2. The power to "ruin" a woman or girl and her family by raping her
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 04:57 PM
Oct 2013

is one of the pillars of patriarchy, everywhere and always. It is patriarchy's terrorist weapon of choice.

Wherever patriarchy feels threatened, the more true this will be.

Sometimes I think people are over-focused on the whole idea of our current "rape culture," but just about every day I see something that confirms it. Something like this.

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