Today in my Holistic Assessment class was genitourinary chapter day.

Ok.

La ti da.

One of the briefly covered topics was sexual assault, being able to assess signs of recent and past trauma.

This in reference to male sexual assault brought about several horrified gasps from corners of the room.

This same reference, when made to female sexual assault, elicited no such reaction.

Pretty fucked up.

In the same way that it is fucked up that people are horrified that men get raped in jail. As if it is some huge and horrific injustice.

Oh, right, it is.

Only it is for women, too. And half of us navigate the world carrying with us the inherent risk of being sexually assaulted everyday.

And it pisses me off that in a room full of women there are no horrified gasps with talk of other women being raped.

Just an everyday kinda thing, if you've got a vagina, for your body to be violated.

I read somewhere that there can be no equality while women feel unsafe.

Makes me feel pretty fucking unsafe to know that someone can forcibly penetrate my body and it is just business as usual, a risk you assume by virtue of being female.

This in mind, anyone who would like to engage in a discussion on the great equality we've reached in modern society can, quite frankly, fuck off.

I've a cunt to keep safe and hardly the time or patience to suffer such utter bullshit.