Comments on: My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 4 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/ Feminist, anti-racist, pro-fat, plus whatever else we feel like talking about. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:10:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: vgob http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303329 vgob Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:08:43 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303329 I seldom comment on blogs. Because of increased opportunity for creatively spending my time, I seldom read them any more. I feel so lucky that I happened to read this (and parts 1 - 3) on a whim today. It is moving beyond expression to find that someone can truly articulate an experience that was a major part of decades of silence and absence from my own life. We can't understand each other. We must understand each other. I seldom comment on blogs.

Because of increased opportunity for creatively spending my time, I seldom read them any more.

I feel so lucky that I happened to read this (and parts 1 - 3) on a whim today. It is moving beyond expression to find that someone can truly articulate an experience that was a major part of decades of silence and absence from my own life.

We can’t understand each other. We must understand each other.

]]> By: Maura http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303248 Maura Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:15:52 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303248 You have perfectly captured the paralysis, the fear, the confusion, and the silence that are so inexplicable and difficult to understand for anyone who has not been molested or abused as a child. As much as reading this reminded me of the pain, it also was a kind of healing pain, too. Thank you for your courage in writing it. You have perfectly captured the paralysis, the fear, the confusion, and the silence that are so inexplicable and difficult to understand for anyone who has not been molested or abused as a child.

As much as reading this reminded me of the pain, it also was a kind of healing pain, too. Thank you for your courage in writing it.

]]> By: Jake Squid http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303037 Jake Squid Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:07:08 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303037 Wow, that's powerful. And scary, cautionary & historical (in a sense I'm having trouble putting into words) - all at the same time. I have the feeling that your story is common to many more people than we'll ever be aware of. As r@d@r says, I'm sure that seeing a story such as this written down is helpful to survivors of abuse. <i>I had no words for what he was doing to me, no training such as young children get now in how to scream no! to scare off an attacker.</i> This is something that I'm glad is much less true today than it used to be. Wow, that’s powerful. And scary, cautionary & historical (in a sense I’m having trouble putting into words) - all at the same time. I have the feeling that your story is common to many more people than we’ll ever be aware of. As r@d@r says, I’m sure that seeing a story such as this written down is helpful to survivors of abuse.

I had no words for what he was doing to me, no training such as young children get now in how to scream no! to scare off an attacker.

This is something that I’m glad is much less true today than it used to be.

]]> By: Richard Jeffrey Newman http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303024 Richard Jeffrey Newman Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:26:44 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303024 Thank <i>you</i> r@d@r! It makes me happy, simply happy, and it humbles me, truly, to hear a response like yours. Thank you r@d@r! It makes me happy, simply happy, and it humbles me, truly, to hear a response like yours.

]]> By: r@d@r http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303002 r@d@r Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:14:59 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/09/01/my-daughters-vagina-part-4/#comment-303002 thank you so much for your bravery in posting this. many of us will be reminded of our own moments of fear and shame by reading it, but i think telling one's story may be a necessary step towards healing, and sometimes we don't have the courage to tell ours until we read or hear someone else do it first. so again - heartfelt thanks. thank you so much for your bravery in posting this. many of us will be reminded of our own moments of fear and shame by reading it, but i think telling one’s story may be a necessary step towards healing, and sometimes we don’t have the courage to tell ours until we read or hear someone else do it first. so again - heartfelt thanks.

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