Comments on: Rage Against The Silence

By: Stu Bloom

Stu Bloom — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:44:40 +0000

Thank you Sheril, for your courage in speaking about your own experiences as well as the worldwide problem of sexual abuse. The effects are devastating to survivors, friends, and relatives.

My blog now links here. It doesn’t generate much money, or much traffic for that matter, but every link helps.

Thanks also to Doctors Without Borders. They’re getting my support too.

By: QUASAR

QUASAR — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:10:51 +0000

Mass rapings of girls across the globe?

GET OFF MY INTERNET!

1. mass genital mutilations of young MALES

2. mass conscription of MEN

3. corporal punishment only for MEN

4. no child custody after a divorce for MEN

5. MALE homosexuality illegality

ARE WHAT REALLY OUTRAGE ME!

By: About Half of Liberia’s Adult Victims of Sexual Violence are Men (NoH) | Feminist Critics

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:56:23 +0000

[...] Kirshenbaum’s remarkably successful initiative to draw attention to the plight of female victims in Liberia and throughout the world1 [...]

By: About Half of Liberia’s Adult Victims of Sexual Violence are Men (RP) | Feminist Critics

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:53:21 +0000

[...] Kirshenbaum’s remarkably successful initiative to draw attention to the plight of female victims in Liberia and throughout the world1 [...]

By: bioephemera

bioephemera — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:51:03 +0000

Sheril, you have been awesome pulling all of this together. Thanks so much – I’m proud to be a part of it!

By: Michelle Holshue

Michelle Holshue — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:18:04 +0000

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for taking action, raising awareness, and organizing a movement about this topic. I am proud to add my blog to the list.

By: Lilian Nattel

Lilian Nattel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:41:05 +0000

I posted a link on my blog here.

By: Lilian Nattel

Lilian Nattel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:23:15 +0000

My blog doesn’t generate any revenue, but I’m with you in this cause and will personally donate to Doctors Without Boarders. Sexual abuse is a global problem. It is the silent violence, sometimes explicitly sanctioned (in Berlin post wwii, now in Liberia), sometimes legally sanctioned (nearly so recently by Afghanistan). I am glad and grateful that in the west it is at least illegal and at least overtly condemned, but it is still rampant.

Some stats:
from University of Victoria’s Sexual Assault Centre:

” * 1 in 3 females and 1 in 6 males in Canada experience some form of sexual abuse before the age of 18.
* 80% of all child abusers are the father, foster father, stepfather or another relative or close family friend of the victim.
* Incestuous relationships last 7 years on average”

We educate our children about stranger danger; there are street proofing programs in the school, but 80% of abusers are relatives, female relatives as well (not mentioned in the quote above). I’ve only heard this talked about in undertones among the moms in the park; the majority of the conversation is about strangers.

Child abuse is the subject that common wisdom among publishers says doesn’t sell. Let’s change that. Let’s make it the topic of conversation, the thing we will not abide, and throw the shame where it belongs, to those who perpetrate this most intimate of violent criminal acts.

By: ktbug ladydid

ktbug ladydid — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:45:27 +0000

please add me to the blogger coalition. I applaud you for your bravery in telling your story.