When I first read the UNIFEM article, my emotions were like a crazy roller coaster with all of the ups and downs; a relatively uncomfortable feeling.
First, it is SO important to highlight how far society has come in actually addressing the issues that so many women face throughout the entire world. In many ways, it reminded me of Betty Friedan's Feminist Mystique; everyone is thinking it, yet no one is willing to openly acknowledge how screwed up the system is, and thus people are conditioned to think women are not meant to have any mistreatment addressed nor fixed.
So when the UN actually took action against this travesty, it sort of made me heart flutter! As UNIFEM said, by making personal struggles public, it allows for a sense of accountability that is rarely found on a global scale.
So with that being said, in a way it distinguishes some aspects of 'gendered' violence. By exploiting the differences between how society deals with women's problems, versus men's problems. Shouldn't they be handled equally? Alas, one of life's many mysteries.
Love,
Eliza
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