End the Violence Against Women Now
Apr 25th, 2008 by womensspace
One in 3 women and girls may be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime. Shocking, isn’t it?
But what’s equally upsetting is that most women don’t denounce their abusers because they are afraid of further violence and of being stigmatized. Help us speak out for these women. Add your name to this rapidly growing book of names so it becomes a powerful lever to advocate for change. Be counted and let survivors of violence know that they can count on you.
Add your name to this rapidly growing book of names.
Thanks, Helzeph.
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Signed, and I’ve passed it onto some friends.
Signed and sent to my email where I can forward it more easily.
Thanks for this!!
When women take seriously the need to train their daughter self-defense, and the day that every girl strikes back with brutal force against the bully boys on the play ground, that will be the day the world will start turning into a safer place for women and girls.
We have to realize that men brutalize women and girls because they can. Women the world over never seem to realize that when a civil “male’ war comes along, their male neighbors are going to turn into rapists and killers. Just ask the women in Rwanda.
We can talk about this male violence endlessly on these blogs, but really I think it is high time that women realize that men are monsters, that they don’t care what they do, and that men feel entitled to abuse, rape, and humiliate women.
When women take charge and stop “producing” the oppressors, then we’ll see something new in the world. Men will change when women force them to. It’s as simple as that.
I see no change in men. All of this stuff could have been written 40 years ago or 150 years ago or 2000 years ago.
Fight back women. Refuse to have male children, reduce this population of violent tyrants. Seems simple to me.
I have an brief story to add to this. I am the mother of a seven year old boy. He was at a park recently and decided to make a joke about a little girls panties, that he happened to catch a glimpse of. She took great offense to his behavior and threw rocks at him. The other little girls on the playground joined in and threw rocks at him. He came home crying and upset, expecting me to storm over to the park to defend him. Instead I told him this, “The lesson you learned today, is not disrespect women. Though you are a boy and think that you are tougher and stronger, today you learned that a girl is more than capable of defending herself.” He was not at all please but I believe he learned a valuable lesson at an early age.
Hey, Renee, thanks for that, and so true. Respect for girls is something boys have to be taught from the time they are small, given all the messages they receive constantly that it’s funny or okay to be disrespectful towards girls and women.