News making rounds currently are those of women getting raped and killed after barbaric act. It's totally heart-wrenching what's going on courtesy of a very minute percentage of populace.

This demonic practice has encouraged emotive based declaration like "all men are potential rapists," "women are endangered species" and many more. It's not out of place to react that way, getting raped does a lot of damage to the victim, physically, psychologically and emotionally as well.

However, sentiments shouldn't be the basis upon which we build our intolerance for rape, doing that would create more problems than it'd be solving. Hence, we need to be objective in our approach.

All rapists (male or female), when found guilty of the act beyond reasonable doubt should be sentenced to the harshest punishment available out there, but the best way to beat this is to prevent it from happening it in the first place, this would demand that men and women be asked to act more responsibly, don't openly advocating for this, would earn you the tag: rape apologist, another sentiment ridden response to a sensitive issue.

The fact that victims of rape suffer from unimaginable pains should make us automatically relate with that and believe an allegation levelled against an alleged offender who hasn't been proven by the law to be guilty of the said crime, that's what many people at the forefront of the fight against rape are suggesting, this isn't being objective.

Same sentiment is driving the redefinition of rape from resulting only when force is applied, but manipulation into sexual relations (manipulation can mean many things in this case), this creates a leeway for those disgruntled, having some remorse after the act to come back to claim they were manipulated into sex.

More women would weaponize this provision as some are already doing. Why? The notion was already set that "all men are potential rapists", "believe all women because it's not easy to come out". We saw how it happened with Neymar.

I, personally have been threatened to be accused of rape if I didn't agree to do something in exchange, it's happening already, and if the raping continues unabated, we'd see that as a normal occurrence in the coming days.

So, it's incumbent upon us, men to protect these women from the 0.001% of the bad eggs, protect your mother, sisters, cousins, girlfriends. And the women shouldn't be left out, they should be extra careful, avoid being I'm secluded places with a man you have no intention of sleeping with, with Uwa, we can see that even the church isn't such a safe place, always be with company, avoid walking lonely streets at any part of the day.

Failure to curb this madness would see more men getting destroyed on nothing just mere allegations.

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