This is blog 10 our last and final blog for class. This has been a neat outlet and enjoyable even though at the beginning I was very stressed having never even been on a blog or read one.
The topic for this chapter is one close to my heart, abuse against women. This chapter and the extra readings was about all the different kinds of abuse against women, children and minorities. Physical abuse is just one type there is cyberstalking, incest, emotional, rape, battering a whole myriad of ways that human beings can come up with to hurt, maim or kill someone.
I lived with a man for 26 years who physically and mentally abused me to the point that I became someone unknown to myself and my family. I lied almost everyday of my married life, not only to him but to family and friends. I was not able to lose my temper, have postpartem depression (I knew he wouldn’t put up with it) or sass back. Outwardly he was the perfect husband and I June Cleaver. June never went thru what I did. This man had me so buffaloed that I would not reach out for help until one day he yelled at me one time to many. I left in three days taking my cook books, some pictures, clothes and a few momentos. I left a whole house and 26 years to move back home and start over. What a smuck I was all those years…..I should have left after I had my first child but then I wouldn’t have my other two boys who are all grown up now. It is easier said than done to just up and leave…no one really can live in your shoes. They mouth platitudes about just leave or why does she put up with that…and the always good one, “God will take care just have faith”. Well God is wonderful but he likes us to help ourselves a bit.
No child should every have to live with abuse from a father or mother of a sexual nature. These predators need to be rounded up and dumped on a deserted island and left to rot or survive who cares. They are a waste of air and space. I am tired of the bleeding hearts that think drug traffickers, children traffickers, those that force women and children into slavery or prostitution need to have help. Help….these kinds of people don’t need help they need to be well…dead! You can’t give back innocence to children, they can survive but they need the help. We shouldn’t be wasting tax payer dollars on these reprobates that perpetrate these crimes.
Our text talks of documents like the International Human rights documents ie, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and others. It is well and good and it is a starting place but again just platitudes. Tell that to the women in Iraq and afghanastan who are fearful of their lives most every day. A declaration is good but action is better.
