This will be a controversial cf, as I remember the previous time I posted sth relevant there was some reaction against my use of the word ‘psychos’. But I’m just too freaked out and fed up to not say anything. Now let me start off by saying I have never been abused by men, I have a wonderful husband, a wonderful brother (who’s also a great husband), and my dad may not have been perfect but he adored me. I’m NOT saying all men are monsters towards unprotected women and children. However, a lot, A LOT of them have proven to be. And that’s just what’s come up in the surface. Can you imagine what’s going on behind closed doors and locked up basements? So many women and children that vanish each year and authorities just write them off as runaways? That’s not even counting what’s going on in third-world countries, countries in which men severely abuse women and children, but it’s considered their right, a given fact.
My question: What can be done that will be immediately effective, considering HOW BADLY THE SYSTEM AND THE SOCIETY HAVE FAILED TO PROTECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM MONSTERS SO FAR? Please don’t respond with ‘it’s much better now; they’re doing the best they can’, because the fact that it could have been worse does not mean their best is good enough. And, yes, I do know that there are female monsters as well, but it’s time to open our eyes and look at the big numbers here, whether it’s rapes, school killings, bombings, even killings of little siblings! A fellow camper was recently saying that she personally knows FOUR pedophiles!!
Maybe THAT’S one of the problems: we never talk about numbers, possibilities. Everywhere, including schools there’s what has been proven to be too much emphasis on ‘not all men are monsters’. Men rule the world, and the good men don’t want to be mistrusted, the bad men don’t want to be suspected. But maybe if we were all given percentages, possibilities on how many of the men we know or meet could harm us women would not get into the car of their best friend’s father so easily and neighbors would call the police without a second thought if they saw the man next door with a young girl but never with a grown woman rather than wait for TEN YEARS FOR THIS TO COME OUT and who knows how many more women are currently being held up in basements being repeatedly raped and tortured and impregnated and then having their bones crushed from repeated beatings to get them to miscarriage, and of course being killed. We do need mental health programs that can identify and help these seriously disturbed people, but as long as many of them walk among us undetected, what can be done must be done *now*.
ETA: "Best mother's day ever" for mother of freed Cleveland captive
