If there was an equal or greater number of bears in the world as women the amount of bear attacks would probably be through the roof. This post is garbo
You’re missing the point. Perhaps on purpose. It is about the sheer frequency of women being violated by fully cognisant men. They are making the choice to assault women.
But we don’t do anything about it because trauma is invisible and bear attacks are visible
I’d say innocently missing the point. As hard to swallow as that is. Because so often women hide their assault—take on the shame for the violation. Because so often the gravity of the assault is obscured by misunderstanding. Because it is hard to face and often minimized. Because it goes unreported. Unvalidated. Unacknowledged.
Because people don’t realize that 1 in 3 women have suffered some sort of sexual assault. So this reference to bears feels like some hyperbole about some girl problem. People don’t realize that the chance the woman they are speaking to—that their mother, sister, girlfriend, best friend, coworker—has been assaulted is alarming high…
But we don’t do anything about it because trauma is invisible and bear attacks are visible
Because people don’t realize that 1 in 3 women have suffered some sort of sexual assault. So this reference to bears feels like some hyperbole about some girl problem. People don’t realize that the chance the woman they are speaking to—that their mother, sister, girlfriend, best friend, coworker—has been assaulted is alarming high…