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Originally Posted by indes
Every woman you know is constantly harassed by men every day? This thread is getting out of hand.
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No one said that, misrepresenting what someone says in a thread about actual harm to people is really not the way to participate, to say the least.
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Originally Posted by chummer
Saying that every woman she knows has been sexually assaulted does nothing for the ones that actually have.
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Your actual point in posting this isn't making it through. Are you saying that she shouldn't be talking about it and should be, what, working at a women's shelter to the exclusion of being able to post on a forum? If not, then what is your point?
And I think it does (EDIT: does do something I mean), speaking out itself takes courage. Almost every post I've read by women talking about how they have to live their lives that has a discussion attached to it invariably includes people trying to shame the women for speaking up or demean what they are saying. The more that women speak out, the more public it becomes, the better. The more they speak out, the faster our society's attitudes can change.