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Letter To President About Sexual Abuse And Violence Against Women

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Hello Kami I enjoyed reading your letter to our president about sexual abuse/violence. I personally think that this is something that happens way to often and that if more people were educated on the matter that this would help decrease the amount of sexual abuse/violence against women as well as men. It states in the text, “currently, negative stereotypes about women of color, poor white women, prostituted women, lesbians, and transgender women all perpetuate the idea, in the wider society, that these women are not worthy of respect. They are less likely to be taken seriously if they report acts of violence” (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey, 2013 pg. 211). So, if being a woman means that we are taken less seriously then why would we want to report the
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