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Rape Culture Alive And Well In Canada

By //  by Candace Sampson

One month before she committed suicide, Rehtaeh Parsons posted a picture of herself on Facebook with a quote from Martin Luther King captioning it as such: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” And in the end that is exactly what happened for Rehtaeh. It took 17 months, but eventually the silence of her friends became too much to bear and she left this world not knowing the storm of outrage she'd leave behind. I wonder if we knew 17 …

Filed Under: Martini Mommy, Uncategorized, World Gone Mad Tagged With: raising daughters, rape culture, Social Media, world gone mad

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