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ashling

(25,771 posts) Fri Mar 29, 2013, 03:54 PM Mar 2013

A chilling and inescapably moving story of rape

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-my-twin-sisters-rape-there-were-many-victims/2013/03/28/09ac8442-9622-11e2-894a-b984cbdff2e6_story_1.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_404h/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/03/26/Outlook/Images/Blizzard.tif
Christa Parravani - Christa Parravani, at right, with her twin sister, Cara. “Cara’s rapist struck every person who ever loved her,” Parravani writes.
In my twin sister’s rape, there were many victims

When you hear or see a story about rape or read a statistic about sexual violence against women, multiply the number of people harmed. Be conservative, if you must. Assume that two other women loved or depended on each woman or girl who was violated. So, for one rape, three are injured. And one in three women are assaulted worldwide. So, what’s that?

Three in three women are harmed.

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A chilling and inescapably moving story of rape (Original Post) ashling Mar 2013 OP

Rape is a hate crime and should be treated that way by the legal system meow2u3 Mar 2013 #1

This book was really good mythology Mar 2013 #2

kick Liberal_in_LA Mar 2013 #3

meow2u3

(24,774 posts)

1. Rape is a hate crime and should be treated that way by the legal system

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 05:49 PM

Mar 2013

Only problem, the PTB trivialize rape.

mythology

(9,527 posts)

2. This book was really good

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 06:15 PM

Mar 2013

I just finished it yesterday after hearing about it on the New York Times' Book Review podcast.

The author walked the fine line between giving the reader enough information to understand the brutality her sister suffered without making it feel voyeuristic.

It's a really heavy hard book to read. But knowing that the author has gotten a happy ending is really nice to finish the book.

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

3. kick

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 06:22 PM

Mar 2013

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