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CoralFrequency
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posted August 17, 2007 11:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CoralFrequency     Edit/Delete Message
http://www.articlealley.com/article_77801_18.html

Girls, have you experienced anything like this so far?

I haven't, but it sounds pretty bad. Would you say that it's fairly common or not?

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CoralFrequency
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posted August 17, 2007 11:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CoralFrequency     Edit/Delete Message
Although, looking around on this issue.. and reading about discrimination abroad, Islamic extremists etc.. almost makes sexual discrimination here seem non-existent..
http://www.wadinet.de/news/dokus/fgm-conference_1ere_journee_humanitaire-en.htm

That is an article about Female Genital Mutilation in Iraq..

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Why do women practice FGM in Iraqi Kurdistan?
Most women justify this act by tradition and religion.
Others confess that they believed that Islam obliges women to practice FGM.

That's just terrifying..

Sorry if this thread got a bit disturbing, or a lot.. but looking up sexual discrimination, I've been finding a lot scary information these days.. I'm doing it for one of my subjects.

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posted August 20, 2007 04:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cancerrg     Edit/Delete Message
in some or the other way its fairly common !
at the same time , i feel if a woman wants she is all capable of dealing with the s**t .

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posted August 20, 2007 04:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for CoralFrequency     Edit/Delete Message
So, if a migrant wanted to.. they could be capable of dealing with discrimination against them.
Would that be a correct statement?

If you migrated to UK, for instance.. and people called you certain names due to being Indian.. you would probably have the strength to deal.

Or, if someone who was Islamic migrated to the US.. and they were discriminated against.. they would have the strength to deal - one would hope (I'm pretty sure there's a poster on here who falls in this category. It would be interesting to see what their opinions are on this overall.. hmm)

Or, if an African-American person was called the N word at school, they would be capable of dealing with "that sh*t".

Or, if an Aboriginal person was being called names in Australia, they'd probably deal to.

Which is good... because it's important to be a strong person, and 'deal'.. However it's also important to have a code of ethics and try to stick to it as much as we can, if for no better reason than to achieve some sort of order and fend off chaos in this world.

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in some or the other way its fairly common !

How did you come to this conclusion? I wanted examples to figure out for myself whether or not it was common.. but since no one replied, I'm assuming it isn't all that common, or maybe it's just a touchy subject.

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posted August 20, 2007 09:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hippichick     Edit/Delete Message
It is not right, but it is very hard to prove, it boils down to one person's word against anothers', unless their are witnesses.

Often times a woman or man for that matter may very well have to handle it by her/himself due to the fact there were no witnesses.

I was scarred a bit as a teenager when a cook came up and grabbed my boobs from behind me. I reported this to my manager and with no witnesses, the manager basically told me this particular cook had been with them for a long time and he did not see any reason for the cook to do such a thing...eventually tired of the condensation and leers and gestures I quit.

Woman have to put up with blatent sexual harassment in the public all of the time and I have decided to not let the disrespectful men get away with it anymore. The comments, whistles, leers, lustfull looks, etc are just plain disrespectful and ARE sexual harassment---just because I am a woman. I am very tired of going out into public and having to deal with gross men acting in a disrespectful manner toward me and my 15 yr old daughter so I have begun to call them out on it! I say something when I feel the situation is disrespectful.

Now it is all in the delivery as well, public and workplace. There are lots of men who "flirt" with me at work and I could call it sexual harassment in particular situations, but I know it is all in fun and done with respect.

The other day 3 construction workers walked infront of my truck as I was pulling out of a parking lot, 2 of them stared, leered, just the general feel of their thoughts and intentions was negative, however the 3rd smiled, waved, looked, stared as well, but it was in his delivery that made the situation not disrespectful....so I smiled and waved back to him.

I have seen women in the workplace blow things all out of proportion, "using" the sexual harassment laws to try to harm a co-worker, unfoundedly...

So, the law really has to be careful and a sexual harassment case is very difficult to prosecute...again it lies in the witnesses. So if women or men think they are being sexually harassed they had better get an EYE witness or it will continue and he/she will have to deal with it themselves...

Then again sexual harassess or harassers in general are often not so dumb to harass in the eye of a witness so we are left to protect ourselves.

I have little faith in the law, currently dealing with a harassment (not necessarially sexual in nauture) but I have protection in my home and I am educated about the laws in my state....

And I am smarter than my harasser....

Victims of sexual harassement would be wise to become smarter than their harassers as well!

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posted August 21, 2007 07:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cancerrg     Edit/Delete Message
:::How did you come to this conclusion? I wanted examples to figure out for myself whether or not it was common.. but since no one replied, I'm assuming it isn't all that common, or maybe it's just a touchy subject.

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why did i come to this conclusion ?

the answer i believe lies in the general mindset of men . check it out anywhere , men still have the that stone age mentality .

its not that we have not grown , we actually have .but then there is lot to be done and i am not sure if we can ever achieve that standard .

now see it from a historical persepctive .
Hindu society was once so liberal to produce a 'kamasutra ' , now the same society bans its own citizen for writting satanic verses .
my point is , men grow , grow and then degrow . the growth comes from external behaviour but the basic remains same , so he degrows .

now see it with yet another example -migrants.
when the british were in india , they had a different attitude , now when the indian worker takes the place of a british in thier own country , they have a diffeerent attitude .

so the basic human nature never changes .
thats the same with attitude towards women too . thats why its pretty common in workplaces .
the present org , that i am working in has strong systems in place so harrasment isn't very open but when you talk of the attitude , i have my reservations bcos i see the senior managers up close in smoking rooms .


i'll come to the second part , later .

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posted August 21, 2007 09:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hippichick     Edit/Delete Message
I agree it is in the mindset, but respect is taught as children and I think alot of parents leave this basic respect for women out of teachings...culture has alot to do with it as well.

In a very culturally diverse area of the country in which I live, there is clearly more disrespect to women coming from particular cultures, and in one of those cultures it is accepted, taught and not seen to be disrespectful...

Still, I give some men a verbal lashing when their eyeballs fall out of their heads, and I mean obviously, or when disrespectful things are said or noises, etc.

If we let the current mindset of some men continue, then sexual harassment will continue...that is why I have decided to take a stand for myself and my daughters and let then know when they are behaving in animalistic ways.

And it is not easy, once I had a big, gross man stalk me in the grocery store because as he walked by, with his eyes on my chest, he made some sort of gutteral grunting noise then said "mmm,mmmmm" So I retorted "f*($ YOU!" I was scared that time, but still men do not need to be doing things like that to strangers who are minding their own business in public!

Hell no!!!

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Dervish
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posted August 22, 2007 12:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dervish     Edit/Delete Message
I'd say it's common, though natch saying something is common is at least somewhat relative.

I know it can depend on various factors. Like a library I volunteered at had a problem (from patrons) until they got a big, long-haired guy working there (as a volunteer), and then the guys started behaving, though it wasn't like he acted like a bouncer. I guess just the possibility was enough, men instinctually saw him as the rooster or something and respected him if not the females.

Complications: some work places are unfriendly, even hostile, to women, while others won't tolerate it and thus it's not much of a problem. Sometimes hypersensitive drama queens can, natch, create problems for innocents, and vindictive women have been known to turn the tables when they get the chance (like one woman I heard of promoted started bullying the guys, ordering them to shave their chests even as she stopped shaving her legs, etc, so it was like vindictiveness). Interesting enough, there are a few guys who are VERY protective of women and a few women who have no sympathy or compassion for others of their own gender, and so at times a man can actually be more sympathetic to women being sexually harassed than a woman. Natch, same sex harassment does occur, though I think it's both least likely to be reported, but also the most likely to be acted on when it IS reported.

Schools vary, too. I've heard some really bad stories about how some schools promote girls and put down boys. Yet the opposite also happens. I was unlucky enough to go to such a school. And I know it wasn't unique because I've read and heard of others like it.

In my case, a new school had just been built to deal with overcrowding and I'd started going there. There was one guy who LOVED to goose girls (we were all like 12-13--and I'm not sure how much of it was actually sexual to him and how much was just him being an immature jerk doing that because he knew it ticked us off). One day, stressed out and not having sufficient sleep, he was goosing me as we were going up the stairs between classes, and I got sick of telling him to stop it. So at the mid-landing, I turned around and kicked him in the face. It was hard enough that he fell, but there were enough other kids there that he didn't fall hard. I expect he was more hurt by everyone laughing at him than by my kicking him and his falling.

A few minutes later I got called to the office. I realized that kicking the boy had been extreme, but I felt I did have some extenuating circumstances and wasn't completely to blame. But the male principal did not care about my side of the story. When I tried explaining how the boy goosed me and other girls over and over again, he dismissed me with a casual, "Boys will be boys."

I blinked at that, and then replied, "And girls will be girls." That got me suspended and mandatory counseling. The boy was not disciplined, and he continued to goose girls, though he never goosed me again.

The counseling got me sent to a place for troubled youth, too. Long story short, the counselor got a bounty per kid he got sent, my parents were about to divorce, and so they were talked into sending me while they started on their divorce (not that I knew anything about the divorce until after I got out--and the counselor was busted a couple of years later and I read about his getting bounties in the paper, for which he was fired and sued, as it was at least indirectly tied to willful insurance fraud--as I say, long story).

Anyway, this place was really bad. One huge adult (granted, my just turning 13 and not in puberty yet did make many adults still seem huge to me, but he did brag about being a marine and former security guard that beat up on people, and was bigger than the 16 and 17-year-olds there, including boys) was a major bully. He also sexually harassed, but it was more to be mean, or so I thought. Like he harassed a 16-year-old and said she just "asked for it" when she protested, and then said, "I guess that's why you got raped." He was mean to boys that had been sexually assaulted and abused, too, especially loving to call them "faggot" if they'd been abused by a guy (which nearly all of the ones sexually abused or assaulted had been).

One day, I had had Enough. I tried to incite a riot but no one was interested, so I went to attack him myself, which was absolutely doomed. I don't even think he felt me as I bounced off of him, though he was mad enough. As I was being carried away for some "quiet time," I shrieked words at him to hurt him with the pure uninhibited hatred that a child can know for those perceived as unjust. As he found me more funny and/or pathetic, I thought, and remembered the word HE used and flung it at him: "Faggot!" I knew right then the way his eyes changed that I was in trouble, though he did nothing then.

I wasn't let out until that night. I'd been put in with another older girl known to attack the staff in the past, but I believe (in retrospect) that she was drugged into unconsciousness. A few minutes later, the ex-Marine came in, though he was supposed to have been off (I recall being surprised that he was still there). Without turning the light on (though light came in through the hallway), he came to my bed and said, "I'm not a faggot."

His tone of voice really scared me. I said I was sorry, but he wasn't interested in that, but in "proving" he wasn't a faggot by making me give him oral sex. I struggled, but he caught my wrists, and I was absolutely unable to push him back--though I did manage to push myself back in trying and I brought me legs up and kicked out.

Suddenly I was flung across the room, and not questioning what happened, I ran out and up to the desk, naively thinking the people at the desk would help. Long story made short, they helped him, and one adult male punched me in the gut so hard that I literally could not breathe for awhile while they put a plastic cord around my wrists (working like cuffs) and took me to an "ICU" (something like "Isolations Corrections Unit," but I'm not sure exactly). There was only one other teen, a boy, there who had also resisted sexual assault successfully as I had. The rest were adults (I hadn't even realized that adults were kept there, too, until then). The adult inmates were angry that a "little girl" had been put in with them, and they were really ticked off over what had happened, so they didn't hurt me (most of them were also there for fighting back against abuse), though they kept us all on powerful drugs (I was so bad that I drooled and food fell out of my mouth sometimes as I ate), so maybe they were too drugged to harass me. Luckily, the guys working there didn't, though I did get abused in other ways, though the doctor in charge of me was a woman--THE most evil woman I've ever met in my life.

I won't go into what she did to me to make me "confess" that I'd kicked the ex-Marine in the throat without provocation, only to say that while I was strapped and drugged to a bed, she told me over and over how no one would believe me, that she'd seen my record, and that I had been put there because I'd kicked that one boy in the face on the stairs in school, and then "lied" about him sexually harassing me, just as I "lied" about the ex-Marine trying to force me to suck him.

The entire experience was traumatic that haunts me to this day, but I did get lucky. While the evil doctor was on vacation, Dad's insurance ran out (the place was running an insurance scam, which they'd get busted for it later) and a form letter got sent to Mom on how "improved" I was and the place freaked when Mom showed up to pick me up. This is a long story, too, but short and sweet, I was taken, still so drugged I could barely talk coherently (and my dreams had stopped) and got taken home. I tried telling mom what happened, but I made no sense and she thought I came out worse than how I went in and maybe she should send me back, and I've never brought it up with her again, out of fear of going back (which the evil doctor DID say would happen if I "lied" by telling the truth). To this day (I turn 25 in October, and I was in for a few months at age 13) I still have nightmares about being in that place.


As for now? I work for myself, and I deal mostly with women. One guy I do biz with is a jerk, but not in a sexual way. Many guys that I'd EXPECT to be sexual jerks actually conduct themselves well around me, too.

But strange guys are a different story. I try not going out on Fridays and Saturdays because I often do get harassed. Some guy will ask for my number and get offended, insulting, and even threatening if I don't give it (like I'm going to give my number to some stranger, especially when there are ways to find where one lives that way). I've even wore a ring and claimed I was married and then didn't stop guys. But Sundays through Thursdays, this almost never happens. Bars are the worst. I even have guys do things like grab my breasts, and apologize while still trying to fondle me. Though once (I laugh about it now, but not when it happened), I even retreated to the ladies room to escape one pervy guy and found myself having to peel a WOMAN off of me.

Understand, I'm 5'4" and a 118 pounds (for those only familiar with metrics, I'm small), and your average guy is intimidating to me, even if he's easy going while treating me like a piece of meat. And a few guys DO like to add in the flavor of, "I COULD take you, if I wanted to."

The very worst experience was when I waited for the WALK, got it, then crossed, and the car that didn't turn when it had the light turned then and I jumped back onto the sidewalk. It went by me slow and it was full of men that were shouting lewd things at me. There were others around, but they pointedly turned away when this happened. I was terrified, but hid it as best I could behind a glare of disdain for the scum.

I also tend to dress in odd fashions. I sometimes wear a studded belt which I found out later is a sign to some in the S&M subculture that one likes to be whipped with it or to whip others with it (more details by other clothing clues). Before I realized this, I also had short hair dyed black, often wore cargo pants (I was described as a "tom boi") and sometimes wore leather side zipper boots with steel toes that apparently told others that I was into whipping guys. I was VERY confused as I had like balding men in their 30s (when I was 20) coming up to me and asking me to whip them and stuff. I wasn't as bothered by that, except that I was confused that it kept happening. Since I found out why guys were doing that, and have changed my look, that doesn't happen anymore, and I laugh thinking about how weirded out I was back when that was happening.

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posted August 22, 2007 01:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dervish     Edit/Delete Message
Btw, just to add to this overall...
http://www.unitedforjustice.com/endingirony.htm

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This sorry chapter in the state's history began in 1981, when an "incest exception" law was passed by the Legislature. It allowed judges to grant probation to men (and women) even though they had been convicted of abusing their sons, daughters, stepchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins or grandchildren, all because incest was deemed different — and less criminal — than "stranger" pedophilia.

Activists, victims and prosecutors have lobbied over the last few years to change the law and similar statutes in 36 other states. By 2003, North Carolina, Illinois and Arkansas had repealed their incest exception laws; it's hoped that California's change will increase the ripple effect.

Why would a crime that usually results in an automatic prison sentence ever have been given a free ride? Because two decades ago what was most crucial to many family activists was keeping families intact. Groups such as Parents United lobbied for the incest exception, claiming that relatives who abused children were "situational offenders," not pedophiles. Life stress was said to have induced them to abuse once or twice. With a little therapy, it was claimed, situational offenders would never abuse a child again.

Hank Giarretto, a psychologist and the executive director of Parents United in 1981, testified in Sacramento that lawmakers needed to be careful that the "father offender" who "had, usually, a very outstanding career both in industry and in his place in his community," was not mixed up "with the type of offender, the predator, the type of fellow who stalks his victims or who sets up situations through which he can molest these children."

By 1994, however, the American Psychiatric Assn. had rejected the idea of situational offenders, finding instead that there was no difference between a person who sexually abuses a stranger and one who sexually abuses his own child.

The awful irony of incest exception laws is that most sexual abuse of children 5 and younger occurs within families. Later, teachers, coaches, priests and neighbors join the relatives. Only 7% of child sex abusers are strangers.

Rosanne Froeberg, an assistant district attorney who heads Orange County's sexual assault unit, says that "the harm done to a young girl who loses her chastity to a father or grandfather who continually abuses her has a much more far-reaching effect than a one-time assault by a stranger."


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Eileen Herring knows of one — her own father. Herring, a 40-year-old mother of two teenage daughters, testified in support of the new California law.

Her father began sexually abusing her when she was 12. When she was 14, Herring (her married name) mentioned the abuse to a friend, who helped her get in touch with Merced County's child protective services agency.

"I didn't even know what he was doing to me was against the law," Herring said.

Her father was arrested, convicted and given probation. "He said since he owned his child, he thought he could do whatever he wanted with me," she said.

Instead of a happy ending, Herring's nightmare intensified. Her father was ordered to undergo therapy. Herring, by then in a foster home where she felt safe, was forced to participate. "I was told that if I didn't go, I'd be put in juvenile hall for defying a court order."

After several weeks, the therapist "proclaimed us healed, and I was put back in my home," she said. "A couple of months later, he started sexually abusing me again."

No therapists, no police, no one from child protective services checked to find out if Herring's abuse had ended, and she felt it was useless to report her father again


Take the girl above. Could she go to an abuse shelter? No, because any homeless or abuse shelter that lets her stay risks being charged with aiding and abetting and also corrupting minors. A few shelters practice a "don't ask, don't tell," but it's risky and get the entire shelter shut down as well as criminal charges to those who knew minors were receiving sanctuary there.

Can she report her abuser? Nope. She did that, and look where it got her. In some cases, not even that much is done. I read in a true crime book where the prosecutor boldly stated that the system knew of her being sexually abused and did nothing, and also said that OTHER WOMEN were treated the same, and thus the fact that the desperate girl had found a guy to kill her father for her had to be prosecuted to the max. Or the many "other women also ignored might take the law into their own hands." ie, your tax dollars at work to keep those girls down with the legs and mouth open wide.

Get this, the prosecutor also said, "Probation is not punishment." Well neither is ignoring the guy she had killed while he sexually abused her. And what about the many men like him who get probation because of the "incest exception law" in most states? Not punishment, he says?

So the ONLY option is to go underground. Where they can't go to the cops for help and the predators (from rapists to pimps to others) hunt and hurt these kids with impunity. And after a pimp grabs a kid, forces her to do drugs if she's not already addicted, and gets her fake ID, then the cops regularly bust her for prostitution on "vice nights" where the kids are then released to raise the money to pay the fine...you know how she'll raise it, too, just as the courts know. How do you like paying taxes to support pimps? (Not all cities do this, but I believe the vast majority of them do.)

I've also heard of how one "expose" (really a commercial disguised as "outraged reporters" exposing it) where cops knowingly licensed girls as young as 14 to lap dance completely nude. The cops stonewalled, the story was forgotten...except by the pervs who knew where to spend their tourist dollars the next time they went on vacation.

Ok, I think I've said enough, or at least what I want to say next is not appropriate.

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posted August 22, 2007 02:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dervish     Edit/Delete Message
One last thing...
http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/080107kvueairforce-eh.d0a50cd9.html

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In the early hours of May 13, 2006, Cassandra said she was raped by three men at a party at Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville, N.C.

Cassandra is an airman with the United States Air Force. So are the three accused men, and for that reason she and her parents believe the military is trying to cover it up.

“All of a sudden they are against her. Totally against her,” Debra Hernandez said.

Cassandra, who admits she was drinking that night even though she was underage, went to high school in the Houston area, where she was a proud member of the ROTC.

The night of the alleged assault, she was taken to the hospital and eventually given counsel and therapy, but the stress of it was all too much.

She says after a defense attorney with the Air Force harshly interrogated her without representation present, she backed off and decided not to testify.

“It got very bad, I was getting calls late at night. She was in tears, and she was going back and forth on everything,” Hernandez said.

But then the unthinkable happened.

Six months after the alleged assault, the Air Force charged Cassandra and the three men with indecent acts.

And it gave the men accused of the sexual assault immunity to testify against Cassandra, which they accepted


ie, if you charge rape against soldiers, you will face being listed as a sexual offender for the rest of your life after those who raped you testify against you for being "easy."

Btw, plenty of guys (and even some women) think a woman dumb enough to trust guys enough to get drunk with them (even if the guy poisons her with a roofie), then she deserves whatever she gets, and it's "not rape." Interesting enough, guys (at least over the net) will state this boldy, saying that guys are scum and any woman stupid enough to trust them deserve to be raped and it's not rape because she's stupid, though they hate feminists who say the same thing (ie, that men see women as pieces of meat and should never be trusted).

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posted August 22, 2007 02:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message
Have you guys seen this movie????? A GREAT MOVIE & A TRUE STORY ALSO!!!! Changed History!!!!

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posted August 22, 2007 02:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message
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