Belle Knox vs Rehteah Parsons

 Belle Knox and Rehteah Parsons came from different backgrounds. They both went to highschool, and lived their normal lives as normal as they could. Until both of them chose different paths. One a porn-star, and one who committed suicide due to rape. 

Rehteah grew up and was born on December 9th, 1995. She was one of those kids were so confident in themselves, and wanted change in the world. But a terrible tragedy happened. That was rape. She went with her girl friend to another home of 2  young boys and decided to have fun by drinking. Reteah then became utterly drunk, and had no control of what happened to her.  After that, 2 more guys showed up and decided to rape her. They took photos of her and spread it around. After this, she was called a slut, harassed, and shamed. After 17 long months of fighting anxiety and depression, she took her life, by hanging. 

But it wasn't only rape that both of these girls in common, it was also the experiences of being slut-shamed. 

Miriam Weeks, formerly known as Belle Knox in the porn industry, had also had an experience of rape. Which also had turned her to be slut shamed. It's so common for women to be slut-shamed, and honestly something needs to be changed. It's caused many deaths of people who have been raped, and the stereotypical slut-shaming needs to go. But Belle Knox, still went into the porn industry after being raped. She didn't end her life, she moved on, and made herself stronger. Although it's still a sensitive topic for her, she went to college, all while being in the porn industry.  Being a porn-star and being in college, was a really surprising fact to me. But she left college with no debt to her name. 

Reteah sadly passed away in her Highschool years due to all the problems that were thrown at her, but made a change for other's lives. She helped other's lives by donating what organs could be used. Sadly, due to the loss of oxygen, her brain was damaged and it couldn't be donated to those who needed it. But she changed others lives by improving the way they lived. Her eyes, liver and other important organs were donated. 

So these girls had their differences, one being a donator, and ending her life. While the other was a pornstar and went to college. But similarly to eachother, they were both victims of rape, and they both were slut-shamed in result of so. These girls have so many other things that were different and similar from eachother, that this conversation could go for a much longer time than it would need to.