This was written by me on Monday, May 25, 2009 at 7:24am and released on Facebook. I wasn't blogging back then but I'm putting it here on my blog spot because it is worth posting.
I have never experienced the suffering women on sex video scandals undergo every day and every hour. I don't know that kind of inner violence that turns a woman's life into constant hell. This daily physical and mental torture of women who have been deprived of their basic human rights, needs of privacy and dignity... This is not part of my personal ordeal but i feel their pain.
I also feel I am a victim of violence against women every single time I learn of women suffering. In every single case that i learn of, my natural and civil rights as a woman have been violated and are violated because I have to fear the day my nieces, my future daughter (if i be blessed with one), would reach their 18th birthday and be taken away from their mothers and me to be the game tool of sick narcissists.
Living in the world I live in, in the country I live in, in the regime I live in, I don't dare to offer sex video women victims any ideas how to change their lives. I don't want them to change anything at all. I just want to ask them humbly to be my sisters, to express my admiration for their perseverance and for their courage to carry on... to have families and children eventually and to maintain a dignified family life in spite of the impossible conditions some people are putting them in. I want to tell them we are all bonded by the same pain...that we are all the victims of the same sort of violence even though they suffer so much more.
I cannot completely understand sex video women victims or their suffering. I don't know how I would have survived such humiliation... such disrespect from the whole world. All I know is that the voice of women has been sort of suffocated far too long in this world we live in. The cry of women is not heard because women are ridiculed, laughed at and humiliated. This I know and sadly, it is very little. However, it is enough for me to remember that these women are my sisters and that they deserve that I should cry for them, and fight for them in any way that I can.
Here's My Message to Men:
Please lend a hand in some way to help end the suffering of so many women all over the world. There are so many things men can do to stop the emotional pain and violence.
It could happen one day to your little girl, your sister, your niece, your aunt, your mother.We are no puppets. Please help make the world safer for the women you love. Act now. Thank you.
Author's note: The image is my personal property.