Sexual violence and abuse. It's mostly directed at women and girls. The potential pool comprises half of humanity. Is it coincidence that women still struggle

Sexual violence and abuse. It's mostly directed at women and girls. The potential pool comprises half of humanity. Is it coincidence that women still struggle for parity with men? That STEM, leadership, and governance roles are still dominated by men? That society expects women to sexualize themselves - even in subtle ways that qualify as 'normal'? Feminists have long argued that the crises humanity now faces are the consequences of a patriarchal society: competition, industry, exploitation... What if they're right? What if this really is the result of an unbalanced civilization? I'm guessing most of the readers here are male. Go and talk to your female partner or relatives - too many will have a one degree connection to a victim of sexual abuse. That is shocking and dismaying. We should be furious. But sexual violence and abuse is an intimate crime that usually happens in private. By its very nature, it crowds the victim with feelings of shame. It's embarrassing for others to talk about. Yet the consequences are devastating and far reaching; chronic sexual abuse absolutely affects development (I have a citation, but not with me at this moment). War related sexual violence is a vast, unacknowledged, collateral crime with victim numbers comparable to military casualties: gang rape, maybe on multiple occasions, sometimes with forced pregnancy, sometimes with genital mutilation - how does one recover from that? How does a society deal with that? Sexual violence and abuse are endemic the world over; not specific to any culture or society (again, I have citations). This suggests it's a flaw within humanity itself... What am I doing about it? At the moment, I'm working with the author of this unique book: https://www.consentcollective.com/courage https://www.consentcollective.com/courage to produce translations into other languages. It's free to read online, and book sales enable the author to keep working on, arguably, the most important problem in the world.