An 8-year-old was raped, tortured,
killed
Because we let this happen
Because we have reduced cases of
sexual violence to breaking news and primetime debates
Because we have normalised sexism
and misogyny and harboured an ethos of victim-shaming
Because we have equated domination
and violence with being male
Because we have let our
‘representatives’ subvert the voice of our collective conscience
Because we have silenced our souls to
allow falsities of ‘honour’ and ‘pride’ to reverberate
Because we continue to bring up
boys teaching them fake notions of masculinity
Because we continue to allow
humanity to be violated and shamed
Because we continue to protect the
perpetrators, alienate the parents, communalise the crime, and destroy humanity
And we continue to let all of this
happen.
(Also posted on http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationaldevelopment/2018/04/30/because-we-let-it-happen/ )
