I can’t ask a client if her husband rapes her because she’ll say no.
Instead I ask her if he has ever forced her to have sex or she ever feels like she can’t say no.
And she’ll say:
“Well sometimes he…”
That’s how fucking normalized marital rape is in this culture.
This reminds me of that study that asked college men if they would force a woman to have sex and 1 out of 3 responded that they would. When the word “rape” was used however, the number dropped significantly.
Sometimes a family doesn’t have to include Alexander the Great; sometimes a family can be just three soldiers in an ominously shaped vat of sewage.
Addressing media fears that disturbing the tomb could trigger an implacable Pharaoh’s curse, Mr Waziri declared: “We’ve opened it and, thank God, the world has not fallen into darkness.
“I was the first to put my whole head inside the sarcophagus… and here I stand before you … I am fine.”
Exactly what someone who is definitely possessed by the sludge demon would say.