As an aside, her one in six statistic strikes me as low. When I was growing up in Texas, I realized at one point that nearly all the women and girls I knew well (well enough to be entrusted with private details) had been molested, raped, or forced into some kind of sexual activity. My mom was raped. My best friend in college was forced to perform oral sex. Her best friend was sodomized. Another good friend in college was raped by both her father and her older brother. My best friend in elementary school was being raped by her father (and I didn't find that out until recently, when she told me how she was grateful for having our house to go to).
And it's not just women who've suffered in our rape culture -- you and I both know a man who was gang-raped when he was a young boy by teenagers. And his mother spent time in the 1930s in an orphanage that was run by a pedophile who pretty much used the facility as his own personal buffet; at least one of the girls there (a ten-year-old) died after he took her to a back-alley abortionist to cover up evidence of his crimes. Ah, the good ol' days :(
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Date: 2011-10-30 05:23 pm (UTC)As an aside, her one in six statistic strikes me as low. When I was growing up in Texas, I realized at one point that nearly all the women and girls I knew well (well enough to be entrusted with private details) had been molested, raped, or forced into some kind of sexual activity. My mom was raped. My best friend in college was forced to perform oral sex. Her best friend was sodomized. Another good friend in college was raped by both her father and her older brother. My best friend in elementary school was being raped by her father (and I didn't find that out until recently, when she told me how she was grateful for having our house to go to).
And it's not just women who've suffered in our rape culture -- you and I both know a man who was gang-raped when he was a young boy by teenagers. And his mother spent time in the 1930s in an orphanage that was run by a pedophile who pretty much used the facility as his own personal buffet; at least one of the girls there (a ten-year-old) died after he took her to a back-alley abortionist to cover up evidence of his crimes. Ah, the good ol' days :(