1 in 5 underage girls are married. MARRIED. Just because it’s not always white girls doesn’t mean it’s not real, and just because people say “it’s just their culture” (as if that’s not an incredibly racist thing to say and such a shallow understanding of culture and people) as a way to ignore it happening doesn’t mean it’s any better.
Their genitals are being cut with razors without anesthesia for the sexual pleasure of adult husbands, and they’re being sold for necessities those in the West relish because our countries ravage their resources. But people only wanna bring that up if they’re bashing on Arab/Black people as a collective (even though that includes those very girls) and justify ICE/brutalization of immigrants.
Billionaires had a child sex trafficking island and no one has time to care or hold anyone accountable because they’re more nervous that a trans person will play a sport than they are that children were trafficked and eaten or that babies were starved so they could be used to fellaciate pedophiles.
Livestock animals are being beaten, branded, made to live knee deep in their own feces, perpetually impregnated, put in cages so small they can’t turn around, drowned, left to bleed out when butchers trying to meet a 175 per minute quota (if there IS even a limit) miss the bolt gun shot, workers getting exposed to unsafe working conditions in slaughterhouses, factory farms producing actual cess pools that devastate towns and unbelievable carbon emissions (especially nitrous oxide and methane), all for something entirely avoidable
But yeah whatever. I’ll just wake up every day and pretend like I’m not thinking about this all the time because if I say any of this in a way that sounds too patronizing or too preachy or too wokescoldy I’ll make people uncomfortable or frustrated so they’ll never want to hear about any of this again, much less try to do anything.
And even still I get the luxury to not think about it, or rather, to only have to THINK about it. People experience this.
If you have the time, please just talk about these things. Start conversations. Yes, donate if you can, but whether you can or not talk about it too. I know it’s not pleasant and it feels insurmountable but just spreading awareness does so much. It’s a start, and we really need a start.
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