There's something particularly obscene about the sheer scope and depth of the depravity of violence that seems to be wrought against women and children, particularly between November 25 and December 10 every year. But actually, it’s going on all year round behind closed doors, perpetrated normally by those nearest and dearest, not perfect strangers in long coats and white vans, with furtive eyes and a packet of boiled sweets.
The horror of the death - and the hell of those who don’t die but suffer for life - is surpassed only by the vacuous virtue signalling that in typically millennial mode means nothing; dressing up a profile pic with a white ribbon or posting of a trending hashtag. One that does work though is this newspaper’s #DontLookAway, a brilliant all-encompassing campaign that gets to the heart of the issue and gets better each year. Contrast this with #AllMenAreTrash: a sweeping statement that at first appears profound but is facile, empirical facts used to create a reductionist statement like all rapists are men, ergo all men are rapists.
At a certain level, it’s understandable; not all men are trash but even the best of us certainly have the potential to be, as with rape.
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