The rape of a 16 year old girl in Pitt Meadows BC is yet another story to embed an uneasy chill in all of us, at best. Some will be raged, somber and maybe even feel nothing at all. In a perfect world we aught to be motivated.
Preventing rape has to be pro-active, we can't ignore the circumstances and be passive observers to our surroundings. Once at the ends of a fraternity party, a girl was laying on a couch after passing out from inebriation. Someone tried to lift her and take her into her bedroom but a friend of his made the right decision. He told him his car was being towed. When he put the girl down in rushed panic, his friend expressed to some girlfriends of the potential victim to get her out of there. This is definitively courageous for someone who was able to put bravado aside and find that compromising his ego was less important than the life altering affect of rape.
We can't tolerate the justification of masculinity to objectify others - men, women or transgendered. In this case particularly there was a party of dozens - people who could have noticed, called the police or took note of their own intuitions. No, I am not blaming the entire party for what happened but just because it's "too late" for this victim doesn't mean it couldn't happen to someone else or even the same girl, again. The people involved are more than still liable..
We have to watch out for each other. There was a time when I attended a many local punk shows and would take pride that if someone were to fall down when they were dancing, they would instantly get picked back up again. They wouldn't go ignored or stepped on, everyone would notice and there was always more than one outreached hand to help.
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