The year is 2015, and you still have to explain to adult men AND women that there’s no such thing as a “tight” or “loose” vagina, because it’s a muscle that expands and contracts depending on a variety of reasons. Or that a woman does not pee out of her vagina. Or that reaching an orgasm during sexual assault does not mean the person enjoyed it. Or that abortion is not the destruction of a fetus, but is of a clump of cells. That the length of a penis has NO relevance to the ability to preform well sexually, since the average vagina is only 3-4 inches long. That pubic hair is not unsanitary or gross, it actually helps protect the sex organs against bacteria, and shaving actually increases chance of infection, abscesses and rashes. But no, we don’t need comprehensive sex ed in America, we’re doing fine!
If you’re a senior in high school, and your freshman little sister comes up to you with bloody scraped knees and tears all over her face crying, “I hate seniors! They always bully me!” you don’t stand there and lecture her on why she shouldn’t label all seniors as bullies.
You don’t fucking do that shit.
You say, “Don’t worry. I’ll make sure those seniors don’t pick on you.“
You take responsibility for protecting her.
Because she’s your little sister. And she can’t fight bullies on her own.
That’s how privilege fucking works. Women, gay people, black people, trans people, Muslims, every single minority in the United States—they’re the little sisters getting beat up by your fellow upperclassmen. You don’t make it their responsibility. YOU TAKE IT UPON YOURSELF TO HELP THEM.
2015: (Same-sex) marriage between military veteran Justin and British-Indian Simon at the DC War Memorial - Justin in marine blue and Simon in traditional red and white Sherwani.