“A 5-year old girls also gets raped. A woman covered in a burkha too. A 70-year old woman gets raped. This is not about sexuality or nudity. This is about control and power.

I think men are insecure, afraid of being rejected. They can’t control a woman’s sexuality and that scares them.

From an early age, women are told, ‘don’t do this, don’t do that, don’t go here, don’t go there.’ Men are not told the same, so they grow up thinking that’s their birth right. And we grow up thinking we have no rights.”

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