Chapter 10 “Resisting Violence against Women” discussed a lot of topics that really anger me as an adult woman with an 11 year old daughter. It’s so unfair that just because we are women we have to worry about our safety and security our entire lives, never really knowing if we’re safe from man predators that want to cause us harm just to show their superiority. Most of the girls I have met throughout my life have experienced being molested and/or raped in their life times, none of them ever have admitted that it was incest but most of them did know the person who took advantage of them and the situation.
I thank my mom for being who she is a strong, independent woman, because she always protected me from this kind of situation. I swear she still to this day can spot a child molester a mile away. She never allowed me to hang out with grown men, not even her own sister’s husbands; she didn’t think it was appropriate. I was never allowed to hug or hang all over any guy it didn’t matter who is was, she just didn’t want me to go through the trauma of being molested or raped and although I hated how strict she was growing up, I have to admit it worked and I’m very thankful to her for that. By being so over protective she taught me to also be aware of situations I put myself in as I got older. I knew better to go anywhere by myself with a man or men that I didn’t know. I basically learned to not trust any man but my father and although that’s caused other problems of trust throughout my life, it did serve the purpose of me never having to deal with the experience of rape or molestation and for that I thank her.
