wake up

"he touched me, and noone cared. my mother beat me up when i told her. was it my fault?"

it wasnt her fault. child abuse has been and still is going on in the maldives. what bothers me is we all know it but we dont talk about it? why do only a handful of people go against it? why cant we all? the topic is taboo? well we`re a bunch of pansies arnt we? we dont want to accept that in our society there are fathers who molest their children, mothers who let others "play" with their daughters, even sons. shame on us.

what happens to that person after? its not psychotherapy that they need. not an hour with a person whose done a diploma in councelling. they dont need that. we need to stop this before it happens. a child shoudnt be introduced into the world of sex at the age of 9. they dont have to go through that. i child shoudnt have to go through abortion at the age of 12. think of the means people go to hide their dirty little secrets. flush babies down the toilet? put them in cans and just toss them into the sea. bury them in the forest? babies found like this are most of the time products of male and female consent but sometimes girls are molested and when pregnant forced to be aborted, by any means. your eyes are open with disbelief?

women and men with sexual perversion are born like this. they are born into a world where there is only sex. their only self worth is that they are there to be used, and when they have the power to use others. human beings are different in nature, some are submissive, some fight. we need to help everyone to fight against this. help them. the world is going to crap and we sit in our favourite coffee shops, having our favourite coffee and someone says,

"hey i heard a guy got busted for molesting his kid."

"thats so gross, they should be hanged"

"yeah"

"i hate people like that"

"yeah"

... and then what? we talk about something else. we joke. we laugh. we go on with our lives. its not our problem right? we didnt get molested right? we dont know anybody close who has been right? and the girl or guy who did get molested would probably be ok now that the person responsible was busted. right? nice.

and truth be told we all think this happens in the islands but thats not really true. its happens here. next door. the girl you see or the guy you see who goes to school every morning. the person you probably might here crying "no" into the night but we dont know him/her. its just a person you see, a person who lives near you. broken and alone sitting in their doorstep, crying out with their eyes for help and all we do is, give a reassuring smile? or usually just ignore them. we`re humans right, its always easy to be ignorant. its bliss.

i saw a man being dragged from one end of male` to the other for molesting kid(s). a crowd of people following him yelling, hissing, cursing. good he should be punished more severely than that. but i wonder which them even knew at that time what he had done. and the people who did know, if even they thought about the kids. how they were? we jump not without a moments hesitation when someone catches a child molester. thats good too, but why wait till they prey and prey and prey on young minds and flesh until they become hollow? until they either become sex crazed or broken and forced into a corner.

child molestation is not love. its not an over show of affection. when a man places his hand anywhere near a childs sexual organ its not affection. pervertion. a sickness whatever you want to call it dont call it affection. what happens inside the families stays inside the families? mothers need to stand up to their husbands when it comes to their kids. sisters or brothers need to help each other not be afraid to speak up to whats right. and what do we need to do? we need to let them know its not their fault. we need to make this a society which understands them. give them the love they never got.