Exaggerations

[jennyaxe]

Sometimes when I bring up a topic in conversation, it gets silent. I've been told this is because when people express other views I get upset. I won't accept them; I keep exaggerating the bad parts of the world. I keep insisting that stuff doesn't just happen, that there are people who choose to make bad stuff happen, and that they're around, even in this enlightened time and place. (This is all paraphrases; I may have completely misunderstood the reasons behind the reactions.)

Anyhow. A poem. With links in it. And it may be triggering,
Why I'm a Feminist, Reason #564

It seems I exaggerate
Irrationally I harp on the negatives
There are many good men
It's not all a vast conspiracy
So why keep exaggerating the problem?

Then I read:
The judge said the victim
was provocatively dressed
so the sentence should be lenient
Ten years old, she was.

Then I read:
a woman with opinions
only needs to be raped
with a big black dildo
then she'll stop talking

Then I read:
The man, previously sentenced
for sexual abuse of his oldest daughter's friends
had sole custody of his son and younger daughter
He started abusing her when she was three.

Then I read:
The doctor raped the woman
while she was under anesthetic

Then I read:
The sentence for the three boys
fifteen years old, who had gang-raped
a thirteen year-old, was lowered
because they hadn't damaged her

I do not say all men are like this
I do not say the world is all bad
I acknowledge that these are individuals
making their own choices to hurt others

All I'm saying is,
I wish it it were exaggeration