JANINE YOU PROSTITUTION WHORE!

I didn't want to put "Slut" in the title so I used a phrase a little bit more appropriate. Anywhoozel...

In Margret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale the Red Center, the place were our lovely Handmaids are trained, has a new kind of rehabilitation. She depicts a class almost, where the Aunts retell the stories of potential Handmaid's rapes.  Offred's "friend" from the Red Center Janine who she recognizes as Ofwarren experienced this method. "It's Janine, telling about how she was gang raped at fourteen and had an abortion." (Atwood 71). They go through this now a days torturous point of yelling at her. That it's "her fault, her fault", and "who lead them on?" "She did, she did," they all yell back at Aunt Helena in unison(72). This unfortunately is something that is kept under wraps in our current society. Although women are often told that it is in fact their fault that they were raped. They dressed provocatively  they were out late alone. In our society you'll see many campaigns to teach women to protect themselves from rapists, but never how rapists can protect women.

The message being taught at the Red Center is something that is being fought all over the world today. Only in the last 40 years was rape redefined to include marital rape. Along with the institution on the Rape Shield Law which protects a women testifying against her rapist from having to bring up her past sexual behavior, I.E. even if she was a prostitute, it's still rape.

In the past couple of months a new movement has begun. It's been nicknamed the Slutwalk. A march where women and men come out to disprove the notion that women who dress like "sluts" are making themselves targets for sexual assault (rape is legally called sexual assault in Illinois). They boast signs that say "My Skirt is NOT An Invitation" and "Nobody Asked What the RAPIST Was Wearing!" The movement started in Toronto after a police officer made the comment that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized" (Erbentraut 1). 

Men should be blamed for rape, not poor innocent 14 year-olds like Janine, when they blamed her they let her rapists win. She did it, she lead them on.  Just like the murder victim just enticed the murder by walking around all alive and stuff, just breathing all over they place! They basically asked for it.

 If you didn't notice this happens to be something I am very passionate about. Most of you should be too, being young women in this society, and YES Matt, Dex, Jonny, Derek, and Danny this applies to you guys too! It may be called "Women's Rights" but I say it's everyone's responsibility to be a decent human being, no matter who it is. The Handmaid's Tale simply brought up this message over and over again until I just had to get it out of my system and BLOG, and not just blog but SERIOUS BLOG.