Comments on: Recommended: “Net Effect: No More Sexual Abuse” http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/02/09/recommended-net-effect-no-more-sexual-abuse/ A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cinnamon http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/02/09/recommended-net-effect-no-more-sexual-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-21537 Cinnamon Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:44:32 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/02/09/recommended-net-effect-no-more-sexual-abuse/#comment-21537 She quotes that less around 4% of children online are close to being abused by adults. But since rates of children who are abused before they get to 18 are not dropping, this just means that there are still lots of people in their real life, who their parents likely know, who are abusing them. I think our tendency to see rapists, pedophiles, and the like as monsters who are "somewhere out there" keeps us from looking at the fact that most people are abused by family members, friends, and close contacts who are trusted by the parents and the children. And, unfortunately, I don't see people taking those claims any more seriously than they used to. Look at the number of priests who have been accused of being abusers and the number of parishioners who find it hard to believe that Priest X could have done that, because they're he's such a good person. It's possible for good people to really heinous things when they think they can get away with it. And that is much scarier than a skeezy man with a nasty AOL handle. She quotes that less around 4% of children online are close to being abused by adults. But since rates of children who are abused before they get to 18 are not dropping, this just means that there are still lots of people in their real life, who their parents likely know, who are abusing them. I think our tendency to see rapists, pedophiles, and the like as monsters who are “somewhere out there” keeps us from looking at the fact that most people are abused by family members, friends, and close contacts who are trusted by the parents and the children. And, unfortunately, I don’t see people taking those claims any more seriously than they used to. Look at the number of priests who have been accused of being abusers and the number of parishioners who find it hard to believe that Priest X could have done that, because they’re he’s such a good person. It’s possible for good people to really heinous things when they think they can get away with it. And that is much scarier than a skeezy man with a nasty AOL handle.

]]> By: Cinnamon http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/02/09/recommended-net-effect-no-more-sexual-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-92759 Cinnamon Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:44:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/02/09/recommended-net-effect-no-more-sexual-abuse/#comment-92759 She quotes that less around 4% of children online are close to being abused by adults. But since rates of children who are abused before they get to 18 are not dropping, this just means that there are still lots of people in their real life, who their parents likely know, who are abusing them. I think our tendency to see rapists, pedophiles, and the like as monsters who are "somewhere out there" keeps us from looking at the fact that most people are abused by family members, friends, and close contacts who are trusted by the parents and the children. And, unfortunately, I don't see people taking those claims any more seriously than they used to. Look at the number of priests who have been accused of being abusers and the number of parishioners who find it hard to believe that Priest X could have done that, because they're he's such a good person. It's possible for good people to really heinous things when they think they can get away with it. And that is much scarier than a skeezy man with a nasty AOL handle. She quotes that less around 4% of children online are close to being abused by adults. But since rates of children who are abused before they get to 18 are not dropping, this just means that there are still lots of people in their real life, who their parents likely know, who are abusing them. I think our tendency to see rapists, pedophiles, and the like as monsters who are “somewhere out there” keeps us from looking at the fact that most people are abused by family members, friends, and close contacts who are trusted by the parents and the children. And, unfortunately, I don’t see people taking those claims any more seriously than they used to. Look at the number of priests who have been accused of being abusers and the number of parishioners who find it hard to believe that Priest X could have done that, because they’re he’s such a good person. It’s possible for good people to really heinous things when they think they can get away with it. And that is much scarier than a skeezy man with a nasty AOL handle.

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