Living in a Rape Culture
As some of you may know, most of what I write about has to do with the culture in which we all live in today and how it specifically affects girls and women. Being a woman myself I have had many life experiences to validate much of what I write about. But as a writer I get the privilege of being able to share my thoughts, feelings and of course the facts of whatever it is that I am interested writing about. So when I came across an article and video that talked about living in a rape culture, I knew I wanted to write about what this meant to me and what it means for all of us. So I decided to share with you some of the things I found out about this topic. The first step in changing anything is to raise the awareness of the problem or the situation and then from that place we can discover solutions. So what is a rape culture? It seems that it is a term that was coined from the days when being a Feminist wasn't a dirty word. It actually defines the current world we live i