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Hiphop. #sec23 #nastyray #hiphop (at San Jose, California)

Attending this DRC event was such an eye opener, I personally did not know, or knew I known, any victims of sexual assault. So this made this issue very real and not so distant. I think awareness is most important when it comes to this topic

Its a sickening thought that the sexual harrassment and humiliation of women is a tool used to destory the communitites of rivaling countries. Violence against women, especially rape, has added its own brand of shame to recent wars. From conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina to Peru to Rwanda, girls and women have been singled out for rape, imprisonment, torture and execution. Rape, identified by psychologists as the most intrusive of traumatic events, has been documented in many armed conflicts. exual violation of women erodes the fabric of a community in a way that few weapons can. Rape's damage can be devastating because of the strong communal reaction to the violation and pain stamped on entire families. The harm inflicted in such cases on a woman by a rapist is an attack on her family and culture, as in many societies women are viewed as repositories of a community's cultural and spiritual values. The class that I was in today turned my stomach in ways I didn’t think it could. It moved my emotions when we talked about some of the acts that armies take in order to break down and control neighboring. This needs to end. 

I personally do not follow a religion and think part of the reason that I don’t isn’t because I have an issue with spirituality, but rather the disgust of how woman are negatively portrayed in many religions. It was eye opening comforting in a way to listen the stories of female deities and spiritual figures from across the world.