Ive been seeing and hearing a lot of the word "reported" and I'm curious as to what it means because I think that its important to know what were talking about when we throw around statistics.

I think that a common assumption is that reported means having told someone of an incident, However I think that factually reported means that the incident has been reported to authorities (police etc) Whats scary about this is that 8% of assaults were reported TO POLICE when we take that 8% and add to it the assaults that are reported but not put in any sense of record thats an astounding amount, Add to this the number of assaults that are never spoken of . . .

Ive been thinking a lot about silence lately the conceptions and misconceptions surrounding it and the difference (In my mind) between speaking up and speaking out. What is silence ? Is silence not telling people when something happens ? Or can it be something different? If someone tells people that something happened but they still don't tell people the effect it had are they still keeping silent ? What about when you SCREAM something but no one hears, How does that relate to silence? Also it seems to be a common idea that talking helps . . . But does it ? Maybe sometimes before you can talk you need to know what it is you need to talk about. Now for speaking up and speaking out, I never saw a difference between the two but I think there needs to be one. It is possible to speak up and say that something happened, It is completely different to be able to speak out and say that it happened and deal with it. You could have no issues talking about something but when it comes to dealing with it internally you could not even have started the process.

I'm going to end this here because I think I put in a lot that might take some time for anyone to actually understand. I know it took me enough time to explain.


Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl

You know i've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because i never wanna see you a sad, girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
Cat Stevens~Wild World