"HI Vicki- thank you for your thoughtful comments and huge heart. You understand so well the anger that replaces the shame and fear of telling. And don't get me started on job pay!!!"

"Hi Diana.  Saw your comments on the rape thread - welcome to the 'angry wimmin' club!"

"Not provincial at all, just if you aren't in direct contact with police officers and social workers who have been brought up on lads mags and porn, it's difficult to know how these have undermined society's support of victims of…"

"London"

"I'm not so sure that reporting rape or any sexist attack now doesn't put the victim through a vicious process.  Having faced up to the fact that I was raped, when I told my family they completely turned against me and I have been…"

"So so so sad to hear your experience - and can totally empathise with your feelings of betrayal over being punished for reporting being raped.  Anyone that believes that attitudes to rape has changed over the past 40 years of women's…"

"Big hug all the way from London Diana - from one survivor to another"

"I have to go out now Eileen but will keep an eye out for you on this site and leave you with this thought ... my daughter will be taking judo from next year - so that any pain that is experienced in her life at the hands of sexist bullies will be…"

"Thank you for your sympathy - and likewise for you too it's been a tough process.  Still, here we are, bloodied but unbowed.  I have a four year old daughter, Matilda, and I use everything I went through to protect her and teach her…"

"Eileen, Like you, my family turned against me when I talked about male violence in my family and with my partner at the time (I left him) and have even accused me of making false accusations of child abuse against my father in order to discredit…"

"I was raped twice before I was even 16.  I didn't tell my mother as I knew I would be held responsible.  Later, when two partners hit me and I left them, I was put under pressure to accept the line that I was a co perpetrator, that I…"