Originally Published Oct 27 2025
It’s graduation season—degrees, pride, celebration. You buy the dress, take the photos. But in a rape culture, even that dress can be turned against you.
Rape culture thrives on contradiction—it keeps women trapped by demanding the impossible, then blaming them for failing to achieve it.
It didn’t just appear out of nowhere. It was built—brick by brick—by people who needed to control bodies they didn’t own.
Historically, religious institutions used sexual violence against children to break spirits and secure power. But it didn’t stop there—it’s still happening. Over time, that control got dressed up as morality, tradition, even “protection.” But underneath it all, it’s the same thing: domination, ownership, and profit.
This is the original war — a war on our children. Control the kids, and you control the parents. Control the parents, and you control the world. All so a few fat cats can line their pockets off our backs. Greed. Addiction. A machine that devours everything and is never satisfied.
What began as control through fear became an industry that feeds off silence and shame.
And then it has the nerve to blame victims—saying only “bad” people get attacked.
Together, we heal. Together, we can end child sexual violence.
This TED Talk digs in.
