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Inés Hercovich is a pioneering sociologist and social psychologist who has researched sexual violence against women for decades. In this speech, she seeks to explain the real reasons why women often stay silent after experiencing sexual assault. Some of the key reasons she outlines are fear for their safety if they report the abuser, feelings of shame, fear of not being believed, and fear of being rejected by society. She emphasizes that every survivor's experience is unique but that the trauma of keeping such a violation secret can cause immense emotional and physical suffering. By raising awareness of the challenges survivors face and the discrimination they endure, Hercovich aims to help prevent further victim-blaming and encourage society to listen without judgment.

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Inés Hercovich is a pioneering sociologist and social psychologist who has researched sexual violence against women for decades. In this speech, she seeks to explain the real reasons why women often stay silent after experiencing sexual assault. Some of the key reasons she outlines are fear for their safety if they report the abuser, feelings of shame, fear of not being believed, and fear of being rejected by society. She emphasizes that every survivor's experience is unique but that the trauma of keeping such a violation secret can cause immense emotional and physical suffering. By raising awareness of the challenges survivors face and the discrimination they endure, Hercovich aims to help prevent further victim-blaming and encourage society to listen without judgment.

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Essinam 1

Essinam Awuve

Prof. Ferrara

ENG 1010

25 November 2023

Why women stay silent after sexual assault.

In a courtroom of several people, Ines Hercovich give a better and reasonable speech that

answer the question about the reason of why women always stay quirt after sexual assault.

She created this text because of the increase oh sexual assault and women discrimination. She

wants the audience to know the real reason of why women stay silent, why they are always

afraid to speak after sexual assault.

Inés Hercovich is known as a sociologist and social psychologist who for decades has

researched subjects related to the discrimination of women. She is a pioneer in the study of

sexual violence against women, and in 1990 she founded the first crisis service for victims of

sexual assault. Apart from her work, Hercovich is also a sculptor, and in recent years, a world

traveler.

Ines Hercovich begins her talk by describing how much are those women, how women deal

with this problem. Every sexual assault survivor’s story is different, and how each survivor

deals with their experience are incredibly personal. Sadly, there are too many reasons why

survivors keep their sexual assault a secret. The burden of holding such a traumatic event in

silence can pose a lifetime of emotional turbulence as well as physical complications. Some

reason of why women stay silent after sexual assault: They might think nobody would believe

them if they did tell someone that they were abused. Safety. A survivor may be very afraid of

their abuser and may fear for their safety if they are open about their experiences. (Hercovich
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02:28) some people will be ashamed and prefer to remain silent because sexual abuse is not

an easy thing to live with. some even leave their lives in silence because they suffer too

much. sexually abused women are always traumatized and live in great fear: a fear of no

longer being considered human, a fear of not being believed, a fear of no longer being

accepted and being rejected by society. It’s hard enough for sexual assault survivors to muster

the courage to speak out on their own — and it can make it that much harder when today,

there is still much victim-blaming going on. Women choose not to report for a variety of

reasons – fear for their safety, being in shock, fear that others won't believe them, feeling

embarrassed or ashamed or expecting to be blamed or judged. A lack of reporting does not

however suggest that an assault did not happen or that such was an exaggeration.

many women remain silent after a sexual assault because of one they lose their mental

strength they become traumatized they spend their time suffering there are those who lose

their life because of too much suffering, those who go crazy because of the trauma. others

who are threatened with being killed if they open their mouth, everything they are going

through is hard to explain and now telling what happened so as not to be believed? consider

yourself a liar with all this shame and suffering? no one can put themselves in the place of

these victims because their pain cannot be understood by anyone who has already

experienced such a thing so in order not to be considered a liar so as not to have other

suffering they prefer to keep silent and suffer silently. (Hercovich 06:30).

Her message was very clear to everyone. She had a very sincerity message for everyone, and

she also told a testimony about a women called. “ANA” how everything starts, also ask Why

didn't she roll down the window and call for help? Why didn't she get out of the car when she

felt something bad might happen? How could she ask him to take her home?
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She also uses statistic in her speech how a lot those women are in this world. There are about

5,000 women here today. Among us, 1,250 have been or will be sexually assaulted at some

point in our lives. One in four. Only 10 percent will report it. The other 90 percent take refuge

in silence -- half of them because the incident involves a close family member or someone

they know, and that makes it much more difficult to deal with and talk about. The other half

don't talk about it because they fear they won’t be believed. And they're right -- because we

don't. (Hercovich 00:00)

She was the right person to give this speech because her morals and principles are right in

line with everything she has spoken on. Ethos is defined as having an ethical appeal to an

audience. She is a pioneer in the study of sexual violence against women and what she is

talking about.

Through her speech, I believe that she was trying to reach anyone who was willing to listen.

Trying to stop the discrimination, let people understand that all those women are in a big

trauma and are not a liar.

About a good solution, I think we must stop thinking that women who are victims of sexual

harassment are not liars but rather we must understand them and even help them if we are

able because it is not an easy thing to live with and some lose their lives in suffering.

Taking everything into account, I must say I have learned a lot from Ines Hercovich. I never

realize this suffering or the cause of why women stay silence. I learned what these women go

through each time, all the suffering they endure and thanks to this speech I can also raise

awareness among the people around me who think that living with sexual harassment is a

very easy thing and those who denigrates and thinks badly of these women and who no

longer gives them any importance. “Rather, they sounded astonished and even a little proud

looking back and thinking how clear-headed they had been at the time, of how much attention
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they paid to every detail, as if that would allow them to exert some control over what was

happening”. (Hercovich 14:27). “If we keep expecting the victims to be demure women who

faint on the scene, and not self-confident women -- we will continue to be unable to listen.

Women will continue to be unable to speak. And we will all continue to be responsible for

that silence and their solitude.” (Hercovich 16:25). We all things we must take this seriously

and consider those women even encourage them because it not easy to go through all this and

recognize that they are strong.

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