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		<title>Women Who Ask For It</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aniko</dc:creator>
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When I was raped, I kept it a secret because people say that a woman asks for it.  I also know that men are believed and women are not.  It doesn&#8217;t matter where you live, men rape women and they get away with it.
In Haiti, it&#8217;s hard to imagine that a girl or [...]]]></description>
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<p>When I was raped, I kept it a secret because people say that a woman asks for it.  I also know that men are believed and women are not.  It doesn&#8217;t matter where you live, men rape women and they get away with it.</p>
<p>In Haiti, it&#8217;s hard to imagine that a girl or woman asks to be raped, on top of losing her home, family, children, money and is likely starving or injured. And yet, here we are. <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/womens-rights/blog/women-and-girls-in-haiti-fear-rape-in-makeshift-camps/">Women and Girls in Haiti Fear Rape in Makeshift Camps</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>With more than a million left homeless after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake, countless people are living in the capital&#8217;s makeshift camps and susceptible to violence, particularly women and girls.</p></blockquote>
<p>Remember the woman who ran over her husband? Word is out that <em>Psychology Today</em> backs the murder because it was sweet revenge.<br />
<blockquote>Letter from Fathers &#038; Families to Psychology Today:</p>
<p>    Kaja Perina<br />
    Editor-in-Chief<br />
    Psychology Today<br />
    115 E. 23rd St., 9th Floor<br />
    New York, NY 10010<br />
    212-260-7210</p>
<p>    Dear Ms. Perina &#038; Psychology Today:</p>
<p>    In the shockingly irresponsible article “Sweet Revenge” (Psychology Today, January/February 2010), Regina Barreca, Ph.D. praises convicted Texas killer Clara Harris for her “great moment of revenge.” The act for which Barreca praises Harris? In 2002, Harris repeatedly ran over her ex-husband David, as David’s daughter Lindsey sat in the front seat of the car begging Clara Harris not to kill her father.</p></blockquote>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=5731">Action Alert: Psychology Today Praises Woman Who Murdered Her Husband as ‘Great Revenge’</a></p>
<p>Do women ask to be abused?  Do they have a right to fight back?</p>
<p>Consider the influence of famous music stars, such as in this case &#8211; <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/womens-rights/blog/lingerie-line-for-girls/">Lingerie for 9-Year Olds Lets Every Girl Be a Li&#8217;l Lolita</a></p>
<blockquote><p>As if girls weren&#8217;t already growing up too fast, Miley Cyrus&#8217;s little sister Noah has just annouced she is assisting in a new line of lingerie.</p>
<p>For 9 year olds.</p>
<p>As the Hollywood Gossip puts it, &#8220;It&#8217;s called &#8220;Ooh! La, La Couture&#8221; and it&#8217;s pretty much a collection of French Maid outfits.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<h3>Violence Against Women Treated Differently Than Violence Against Men</h3>
<p>They say that in Haiti, the women there have been subjected to rape as part of their culture.  It&#8217;s nothing new for a land of poverty.  No one is held accountable.  In America, tween sexuality is marketed to little girls and no one is held accountable. It wasn&#8217;t until one woman took a matter into her own hands and killed a man that the law stepped in.</p>
<p>When the violence was done against the male.</p>
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