If after reading “The Careless Languages of Sexual Violence,” a Rumpus Original essay by Roxane Gay, you want to share your response directly with the New York Times, considering submitting a letter to the editor or op-ed.
If after reading “The Careless Languages of Sexual Violence,” a Rumpus Original essay by Roxane Gay, you want to share your response directly with the New York Times, considering submitting a letter to the editor or op-ed.
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I will celebrate my 80th birthday in September of this year and, as you would imagine, I have seen many things change over the years. Some surprizingly good and most horrendously bad!
I have seen men turn into hands-on fathers instead of the “guy” who brings home the “bacon” and as far as I’m concerned, these things bode well for the future generations.
However, I have also seen such a complete collapse of morals in our society.
And, strangely enough, we are shocked at first when something heretofore un-acceptable slowly becomes “OK” thru repetition.
In my opinion, this is what’s happening w/the horrible act of raping someone.
And, it’s why now is the time to nip it in it’s infancy before it becomes just another act of “advancing” society.
Men have the god given drive to perpetuate the species…a necessesarily (sp.)
strong and undeniable drive. The thing is, from childhood up, boys and men need to have the lesson driven home, as no other, that rape is never right or acceptable. That when sex is not totally consentual…without question, it is against everything right and moral and a slap in the face of God!
As far as I can see, this is the only way to correct this situation and it happens to be the long-term one. as for right now, articles like yours on the subject need to be publish in so many places that no one can avoid seeing them.
we have laws in place to punish these actions and it is the duty of every citizen to be vigilant in seeing and reporting any such incident.
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