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A 12 year old girl was raped in the hallway of her school by a 14 year old. Two other students walked up in time, one stopped the rape while the other ran to find a teacher. Sounds bad enough, right?
But then, THEN, one of the school supervisors spoke out [...]
One last note in the Rape/CIO analogy arguement.
In the birthing community there is a term that some use to describe their birth experiences called “birthrape”. Where the mother felt so violated and traumatised by her childbirth experience that to her it was comparable to rape.
Now, I’m on the birthrape is real side. I think [...]
A few years ago I was a co-moderator on a brand new forum that had opened. I helped moderate the breastfeeding section of the parenting board, and it was nasty. Maybe because it was a brand new forum, maybe because the site it was linked with tended to draw younger people, or maybe because the [...]
Today is A Day to End Sexual Violence.
“Many victims have learned much in the process of becoming survivors. They have paid dearly, emotionally, financially, by losing years of their lives. Many have survived as stronger, wiser persons. Sharing their testimonials may be helpful to them as yet another step in the healing process. All their [...]
