#DearDaddy, a viral video released by Care Norway, is calling on all fathers and would-be fathers to not turn a blind eye to rape. The five-minute video is told from the perspective of an unborn girl describing the difficulties she’ll face in her lifetime living in a world where one in three women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The transcript:
I will be born a girl which means by the time I am 14, the boys in my class would have called me a w***e, a b***h, a c**t, and many other things. It’s just for fun of course, something boys do. So you won’t worry and I understand that.
Perhaps you did the same when you were young, I’m sure you didn’t mean anything by it. Still, some of the other people won’t get the joke.
So by the time I turn 16, a couple of the boys would have snuck their hands down my pants while I’m so drunk I can’t even stand straight.
And although I say no, they just laugh… it’s funny right? If you saw me Daddy, you would be so ashamed because I am wasted.
No wonder I’m raped when I’m 21. 21 and on my way home in a taxi driven by the son of a guy you went swimming with every Wednesday… the guy who told insulting jokes but of course they were only jokes, so you laughed.
Had you known his son would end up raping me, you would have told him to get a grip. But how could you know?
He was just a boy telling weird jokes and in any case it wasn’t your business, you were just being nice.
But his son raised on these jokes becomes my business.
Later the woman is fine in a happy marriage, until…
One night it’s all too much for him… so he calls me a w***e, just like you did in middle school. And then another day, he hits me… And then one day, he almost kills me.
Dear Daddy, this is the favour I want to ask, one thing always leads to another. So please stop it before it has the chance to begin.
Don’t let my brothers call girls w****s because they’re not… Don’t accept insulting jokes by weird guys by the pool, or even friends. Because behind every joke, there is some truth.”
I will be born a girl, please do everything you can so that won’t be the greatest danger of all.
