Because we know to hold hands, look both ways and watch our backs. We know better than to go to a stranger's room or to walk home alone. Except for the fact that 85 percent of all sexual assaults are committed by someone the victim knows and 41 percent happen right in the victim's home. An additional 19 percent occur at or near the house of the victim's friend. Violence does not have to be delivered with the back of a hand or by unwelcome sexual advances.
Words can be just as violent.
Violence does not have to be delivered with the back of a hand or by unwelcome sexual advances. Words can be just as violent. But much of the pain from domestic violence is kept tucked away in closets or locked up in chests. It takes courage. And courage is what the ribbon is about.