Time for Women to Organize
Against Rape and Abuse
African Americans have the NAACP and the Southern
Poverty Law Center. Jews have the Anti-Defamation League. So where is the
national organization of women who proactively stand up against rape and abuse?
That’s the thesis behind my latest book, StopRape.com
which shows how a raped marine recruit employs social media to give all
rape victims, female and male, a platform not only to tell their stories, but
to post the pictures and addresses of the men who attacked them. That social media
site is then used to guide the Women Warriors Against Rape and Abuse to go
after the perpetrators.
The story is told through the eyes of a young TV
reporter at a small, remote station, Kerstin Mikkola, who hopes the report will
lead to a bigger and better job with the network, but she is soon part of the
story herself, and in danger.
The moral, if a novel can risk that, is when law and
order fail, the last resort for justice is revenge. The Women Warriors are out
to avenge the victims, and the result can be tragic. For an example, consider Afghanistan and Pakistan where there is no justice
for the victims of drone strikes, so plans are for revenge against the United States . Those folks have long
memories and hold perpetual grudges.
It’s pitiful that American women can’t even get
equal pay for equal work. The Equal Rights Amendment was never ratified. So
when are women going to, if you’ll pardon the analogy, stand up like men and
fight back?