I won't watch it. It upsets me too much.
No, not because I can't mange the issue - but because of how we as a community so quickly pat ourselves on the back because we are "addressing" sex crimes.
While we ignore the persistent presence of sexual violence against children in our homes.
I WANT TO SCREAM!
- When will we take serious the cries of that young boy or girl who TODAY is being molested by a "trusted" adult?
- When will we stop trying to equip children to protect themselves and finally challenge adults to stop raping kids!
- Where is the outrage at the damage being done to the potential found in the identity of that child?
- Why is it that other causes, that affect far less people, receive the funding?
I WANT TO SCREAM!
Let me scratch the denial for you. This is a glimpse of what is behind the closed door of sexual crimes in our homes:
- The grandmother distraught as the third generation female is sexually violated.
- The 23 year old who internalized the disgust of the sexual atrocity perpetrated against her.
- The 12 year old who, again molested by her father, was ignored by the system when she first spoke of it at age 4.
- An on-line community for victims closes because there is no money.
- The crippling cycle of therapists, groups, doctors, lost days of work, paralyzing fears, and repeating dysfunctions that costs our culture billions of dollars.
- Fact: the trauma of sex abuse is inked to drugs, alcohol and many physical illnesses.
What is it going to take for us to get this?
I WANT TO SCREAM!
I"M SICK OF IT!
... and the tears start to flow....
Yes, it's a very grim matter all round... and - with apologies for adding to the horror - however should we start to 'address' the genital mutilation of girls across the world, some half a million of them in the USA? FGM happens everywhere and is often followed by forced early marriage (what we might call child rape)....
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