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Hey! It's Abbie, again.
Being a woman,
it is so frustrating to me that
when we go walking on the street,
we have to worry that we are
going to be heckled or
someone's going to harrass us.
Especially at night or alone in the city,
we worry about someone hurting us
or following us
or being really inappropriate
and making us feel unsafe.
It shouldn't be that way.
Just because we have chests...
Just because we have ***,
and, you know, we're female,
doesn't mean that we should
be treated like that.
Why is it that women don't feel safe
and we think we have to take
all of these precautions?
I think it's smart to do so,
to take precautions,
so people know where you are,
in case something happened...
It's really unfortunate that
women don't often feel safe if they want to
go crazy, get drunk...
If they want to wear something revealing,
(American) society encourages that,
in some ways, but then
uses that against us if someone hurts us.
This might be a trigger. I'm sorry.
It's pretty serious. This is not light stuff.
It won't always be this heavy,
but sometimes it will.
I think it's important to talk about.
One of the first questions a lot of people
are asked when they report a ***--
which people don't do often enough--
or some form of assault, is
"what were you wearing?"
The victim is asked what they were wearing
or if they were under the influence
of alcohol or drugs.
Our society is so...
we blame the victim!
We say, like, it's a woman's own fault,
that she was being "slutty"
or if she was "out of control"
or she wasn't protecting herself as she should.
We shouldn't have to protect ourselves.
We should be safe.
No matter what we wear or if we get drunk,
people should still respect us,
and not think that it's an opportunity
or an excuse to be violent, to hurt us.
There is no excuse for doing that.
It doesn't matter how stupid I look
or I'm acting, I still don't deserve
to be hurt that way.
It's really difficult to talk about stuff like this
because I don't want to offend anyone....
I really don't think it's right to blame
people who are hurt by other people
for that violence.
When someone is hit by their significant other
and then other people around them say,
"what did YOU do?" to the victim;
"what did YOU say to him/her to
make him/her hit you??"
There should be pretty much NOTHING
that you can say to someone that
is going make them hurt you.
NOTHING. There is NO excuse.
So, even though I am a feminist,
and no one's going to change that,
and I believe that *** is wrong
in every situation,
I don't hate people for
joking about it--
as long as they realize the difference
between it being a joke
and what's actually morally right and wrong.
You know what I mean?
That brings up a bunch of political crap,
which I will probably be getting to later.
I might make a separate channel
because I don't want people to hate on me
and not enjoy parts of my channel
that aren't politically charged,
just because they disagree with THAT part.
What do you think?
Should I do a separate channel for politics?
Or, should I just have it on here?
Tell me in the comments.
Thanks for watching!
Discuss away.
If you have any questions
that are respectful and courteous,
I'll try to answer them.
I'll be checking back in the comments.