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Today is the Sexual Assault Awarness Month day of action. It's a day when we're supposed to DO something to help bring awareness to the issue of sexual assault. Many women are blogging sexual violence and sexual assault.
Maiden Cover:
I only know (personally) one person who has been violently, physically, sexually assaulted. I know of several others who have been harrassed in other ways. They are only a few in a world of many. Being a college student and working in/around law enforcement has opened my eyes to more things than I can honestly say that I cared to see. Working and being around mostly men has subjected me to things that I would rather not have memories of.
The End Violence Against Women blog should be in your feed reader right now.
Enola shares a story about violence in the workplace:
That night he called in tears. There had been a shooting at his place of business. A husband, despite the domestic violence restraining order against him, and despite being out on bond for assaulting his wife, came to the business, shot his wife-employee and then himself. All of this occurred in the business and in front of the other employees.
At wired for noise:
The fact is rape isn’t about sex, it is about power. The men who rape aren’t doing so because they want to get off, they want to dominate the woman. They want to insert their power over her, and the best way to do that is to use her own body against her. Rape is about power and anger, not sex.
And let me leave you with a link to bluemilk whose 3 year old daughter recently said...
My vulva is poisonous.
What are you doing today to bring awareness to and put an end to sexual assault and violence? You are doing something, aren't you?
