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Nenia Campbell

"Mámá had always made it clear she believed girls who got raped deserved it. I hadn't done any of the things she said 'bad girls did,' though. I didn't parade myself around in sluttish clothes and make untoward advances. But Mámá had been wrong about everything else so far, so maybe she'd been wrong about that, too. Maybe it didn't matter whether you were bad or good, prudish or wanton: maybe just being female was enough, for some men. Maybe, like so much else, it was only about control. But then why do I feel so guilty?"

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"Mámá had always made it clear she believed girls who got raped deserved it. I hadn't done any of the things she said 'bad girls did,' though. I didn't parade myself around in sluttish clothes and make untoward advances. But Mámá had been wrong about everything else so far, so maybe she'd been wrong about that, too. Maybe it didn't matter whether you were bad or good, prudish or wanton: maybe just being female was enough, for some men. Maybe, like so much else, it was only about control. But then why do I feel so guilty?"

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