PRECIOUS

Have you seen the movie PRECIOUS??

It is about the life of a teenaged woman in New York. She is an obese girl who was raped by her father and she had 2 children of him. The movie shows what a poor African-American woman had suffered and how unjust is life sometimes.

This film really touched me. It seems so bad how the world is dealing with this kind of stories. It just made me think what kind of public policy or law do we have to apply in order to condemn this kind of abusively acts.

I thought about the information Maloney gave us in her book:

· Someone is sexually assaulted every 2 ½ minutes in America

· Nine out of 10 sexual assaults are against women

· Three American women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day.

Statistics show us how important is to have legislators leading with these matters. And somehow facts also are showing us how these important themes are leading by women. We want justice and we want that our lawmakers will pass bill to help the Justice system.

In South America, sexual assaults, domestic violence, and child abuse are horrible acts that are affecting us. In my country, these are the numbers:

· One out of 4 children have been abused by someone of their family.

· 64% of the women murders in 2009 were because of any kind of machismo violence

· Eight out of ten Ecuadorian women have suffered any kind of psychological, physical, and sexual violence in their lives.

Sexual violence happens everywhere. I am sure that this should concern us all. But, I am also think these themes has a bigger impact in women. In Ecuador Congresswomen are the ones who are passing laws and bills penalizing these acts. Why these topics are not having an effect on men?