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FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Family is family, but even love can't keep people from eating at each other.

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OUR CENTRE

ADDRESS: UNIT #, STREET NAME, GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, US

NUMBER: +1-XXX-XXX-XXXX

FOUNDER: RUTH BOATWRIGHT & BONE BOATWRIGHT

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A SAFE SPACE SINCE 1992

Ruth Boatwright came up with the idea of a women's shelter in her last few years of life while she was taking care of her niece, Bone Boatwright. The reason behind her idea was how she always guessed Bone was being harrassed by her stepfather even though Bone never admitted. However, Ruth took great care of Bone and made her feel welcome at her home even though she was struggling with cancer at the same time. According to Bone Boatwright, "Aunt Ruth would always tell me about her ideas; how she wished to create a safe space for women and children and how she wanted it to be her legacy". A few years later, after Ruth's death, Bone found the strengh to share her story with the world and ever since she's been an inspiration. She then started the Ruth Women's Shelter and named it after her Aunt since "She was the one giving me hope in my childhood. Maybe she did not know it herself, but she was the one". Ever since, Ruth Women's Shelter has been supporting hundereds of women in South Carolina and it keeps spreading the family.
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“I could not tell my mom. I would not have known how to explain why I stood there and let him touch me. It wasn't sex, not like a man and woman pushing their naked bodies into each other, but then, it was something like sex, something powerful and frightening that he wanted badly and I did not understand at all. Worse, when he held me that way it was the only time his hands were gentle, and when he let me go, I would rock on uncertain feet.”

ANONYMOUS_1: Women ☕ You guys are the most pessimistic people ever. Just because you stayed silent and let him do whatever he did, doesn't mean it's happening widely in the world. Men and women used to have a lot of difference when it came to power but it's gone today. Stop trying to make a big deal out of every little thing!

ANONYMOUS_2: @ANONYMOUS_1 So you believe this is not happening widely? That this isn't a big deal? Take a look at this article mister. *ARTICLE LINK* The report demonstrates that while many countries have started taking steps to protect women's rights and promote equality, actual progress has been slow. According to its findings, one woman in three will experience violence during her lifetime, most often at the hands of someone she knows. Women comprise two thirds of the world's illiterate people, while about a third of all pregnancies--some 80 million a year--are unintended or unwanted. Among other troubling statistics cited in the report, some 500,000 women die each year as a result of pregnancy, many times that number suffer disease or disability and two thirds of the 300 million children without access to education are girls.

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“Sometimes when I looked up into his red features and blazing eyes, I knew that it was nothing I had done that made him beat me. It was just me, the fact of my life, who I was in his eyes and mine. I was evil. Of course I was. I admitted it to myself, locked my fingers into fists, and shut my eyes to everything I did not understand.”

ANONYMOUS_1: Maybe there is a reason you're calling yourself evil hah? You're probably being ungrateful and you know it's your own fault. That's why you feel evil. You are. Poor guy probably pays for your whole life and you go write this shit about him on the internet. A man simply belongs to the woman that feeds him. Why can't women see that?

ANONYMOUS_2: @ANONYMOUS_1 Because it's bullshit. It’s the other way around and you know it. It’s the woman who belongs to the ones she feeds. Also, men can do anything, and everything they dp, no matter how violent or mistaken, is viewed with humor and understanding.

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“Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid. But at the bottom, at the darkest point, my anger would come and I would know that he had no idea who I was, that he never saw me as the girl who worked hard, who got good grades no matter how often I changed schools, who ran errands for my mom and took good care of my sister. I was not dirty, not stupid, and if I was poor, whose fault was that?”

ANONYMOUS_1: You being poor is your daddy's fault and at the same time you women believe y'all are independent and you provide for yourself. You guys are funny for real.

ANONYMOUS_2: @ANONYMOUS_1 Believe it or not, there are a lot of women who zero control over where they work and what they do. More than what you think. Our bodies were born to be worked to death, used up, and thrown away.

ANONYMOUS_1: @ANONYMOUS_2 How is that men's fault? And I don't think that's true. Women are working way more than before and all of that you said are just in the past.

ANONYMOUS_2: @ANONYMOUS_1 It's not men's fault but it is your fault when you start ignoring the truth intead of supporting women. And yes, women do have jobs more than before but no, the difference between men and women is not gone. American men are doing about 16 hours of housework a week, up from 12 hours in 1965, according to a study by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR), Ann Arbor. The weekly housework hours of American women have declined sharply since 1965. Yet, they are still doing much more housework than men--about 27 hours a week.

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“I lived in a world of shame. I hid my bruises as if they were evidence of crimes I had committed. I knew I was a sick disgusting person. I couldn't stop my stepfather from beating me, but I was the one who masturbated. I did that, and how could I explain to anyone that I hated being beaten but still masturbated to the story I told about myself?”

ANONYMOUS_1: When you enjoy it what are you even complaining about??!!

ANONYMOUS_2: @ANONYMOUS_1 Agreed.

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