藤儿点评：加拿大BC省长Christy Clark坦承她在13岁时险遭性侵犯。她直言“性暴力是经常发生的事情，很普遍的事情。很不幸的是，我们受害人保持沉默反而让那些试图伤害我们的人更有恃无恐，作案也更加容易。” Clark: "Over the last few weeks, I've shared this story with female friends and colleages. Almost every single one of them also had a story. Like me, none of them had said a word." 加拿大BC省长Christy Clark的话暗指，她身边的每一个男人也有一个相应的“他们自己的故事”——性侵。他们也像她一样，不会从自己的口中说出一个字来（否则就会被曝光和坐牢）。 --------------------------------------------- 来源：news.nationalpost.com Christy Clark: When I was 13, a man suddenly jumped out and grabbed me off the sidewalk Christy Clark, Special to National Post | June 9, 2016 5:38 PM ET 
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad HipolitoI’m not speaking out for sympathy; I don’t need it., Christy Clark writes. I am speaking out because as Premier of British Columbia and B.C.’s first elected female premier, I am Governments almost never consider bills introduced by the Opposition. There are a lot of reasons for that — some good, some not so good — but it’s a long, unfortunate tradition in Canada’s notoriously partisan parliaments. In B.C., we broke from that tradition. Earlier this spring, the Greens introduced a bill that would set clear guidelines for sexual assault and misconduct at all public post-secondary institutions in B.C. I happened to be reading it during Question Period when I was surprised with a question about whether or not we would pass it. As I got up to answer, I decided that our government would pass the legislation. I knew it was the right thing to do. Why? It’s about changing the environment in which post-secondary students spend most of their time, and providing more support for victims of sexual assaults and sexual violence on college and university campuses. It speaks to the large number of women and men who stay silent about their experiences. I knew all too well why women stay silent. For over 35 years, I’ve been one of them
As I sat in my chair on the floor of the legislature, it struck me: I knew all too well why women stay silent. For over 35 years, I’ve been one of them. I grew up in suburban Burnaby, the youngest of four kids in a community where it seemed like there were four children in every house. The road up the hill was teeming with kids walking to school, and then back home for lunch at noon. In 1978, nobody drove anybody anywhere. You either hoofed it, or when you were old enough, took a bus. It was back in the day when there were lots more kids than parents around. The days before chronic over-scheduling, when kids were allowed to waste time and wander. 
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl DyckBritish Columbia Premier Christy Clark addresses the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. I don’t remember everything from my youth, but I do remember all of the sexual advances from strangers: getting flashed, groped, spied on. Things that no person should experience, let alone a young girl or teenager. Most of all, I remember the time a stranger pulled me off the sidewalk into the bushes. There was no doubt in my mind that he wanted to hurt me. I’ll never know what might have happened. What I do know is that I never told anyone about it. It was a sunny day, and I was walking to work at my first job. A man suddenly jumped out, grabbed me and pulled me out of sight into a deep copse of shrubs. He didn’t say anything. I don’t even remember what he looked like. RelatedI remember wondering where he had come from, and why I hadn’t seen him. And I remember being very scared. Luckily, it didn’t last long. When he pulled me down the little slope, it must have shifted him off balance. He loosened his grip for a moment, giving me a chance to wriggle away, clamber a few feet forward, and get out of the bush. Once I got out into the sunlight, I ran like the wind. When I got to my restaurant job, overflowing with relief that I was safe, I stopped outside to catch my breath. Then I went in, put on my apron, and got to work. 
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin TangB.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark hugs her son Hamish Marissen-Clark on stage after winning the B.C. provincial election in Vancouver, May 14, 2013. I never told anyone. Not about this or any of the other frightening things of a sexual nature that happened to me as a child or a teenager. For 35 years, it’s as though they never happened. Over the last few weeks, I’ve shared this story with female friends and colleagues. Almost every single one of them also had a story. Like me, none of them had said a word. That’s why the stories of so many women who stay silent have struck me so deeply. Many of their stories are much worse; horrifying events will take years of determined effort to heal. Nonetheless, many of us share something in common: we have never spoken about it, not to the authorities, or our parents or spouses. I don’t claim to speak for all women in explaining why I didn’t tell, but for me, as a child and then a teenager, I was ashamed. It made people uncomfortable. I suppose I felt that if I hadn’t been physically hurt, people would think I was self-absorbed, overly upset about something that was just part of life for my half of humanity. I told myself: Get over it. Bad things happen. It was trivial. Sexual violence is common. Unfortunately, so is staying silent about it. Our silence makes it easier for those who wish to harm us. We don’t share our stories, we don’t think anyone would care much if we did, and then we live with the warped impression that we are alone in our fear and shame. I’m not speaking out for sympathy; I don’t need it. I am speaking out because as Premier of British Columbia and B.C.’s first elected female premier, I am privileged to have a public platform. I want women who have never said anything about sexual violence in their lives to know they are not alone. Shame is painful. It’s also pervasive and isolating, but the capacity to survive and heal is achievable through the sharing of our experiences. Let’s build a community where women and men who have dealt with sexual violence can feel safe and comfortable talking about it. Let’s build strength in numbers. Let’s help the institutions where we work, go to school and live our everyday lives, understand the breadth of this problem. Let’s get to work on addressing it. You know what bothers me the most about what happened to 13-year-old me? Not knowing if the man who pulled me into the bushes kept going until he caught a girl who couldn’t get away. I wish I’d had the courage to say something then. I do now. Christy Clark is the premier of British Columbia ------------------------------------------------------------- 来源：加国无忧 2016-06-09 卑诗美女省长坦承：13岁时险遭性侵犯 卑诗美女省长简蕙芝（Christy Clark）今天上午在给媒体的信中坦承：她在13岁时险遭性侵犯。她说，当省议会有议员提出关于加强对大学校园性罪案打击力度的私人法案时，她全力支持，这多少有她个人的经历在里面。 
简蕙芝在信中说，年轻时候的很多很多事情她都忘记了，但唯有这件事她终身难忘，因为这不是1名天真烂漫的女童或如花似玉的少女该经历的可怕事件。 事情发生在35年前，当时她仅13岁，住在温哥华郊区本拿比（Burnaby），那天是个阳光灿烂的日子，她步行去打她的第一份工。“走着走着突然有1名男子跳出来，抓住我，并拉着我离开人们的视线往深绿色的灌木丛中钻。这个人一言不发，我都不记得他长什么样了，只记得当时害怕极了，想到的是他从哪儿出来的，为什么我一直没有看到他。” “万分幸运的是，当他把我拖到灌木丛中的一个小坡时，也许因为慌张他好像失去平衡，跌了一下而没有把我抓紧，我于是利用这个机会挣脱，向前跑了几英尺之后就跑出了灌木林。” “我绝没有告诉过任何人！” 简蕙芝在信中说，“一跑出来见到阳光，我就像风一样拼命地跑哇跑。跑得上气接不了下气，一直跑到我打工的餐馆外面我才停住脚步，心想我现在安全了，于是站在那儿慢慢地调整我的呼吸。然后我一头冲进餐馆，系上围裙就是埋头做事。” “整整35年了，我从未将此事告诉任何人，好像它从未发生过一样。我不断地告诫我自己：一定要克服它、战胜它。不好的事情已经发生了，这其实是微不足道的。” “性暴力是经常发生的事情，很普遍的事情。很不幸的是，我们受害人保持沉默反而让那些试图伤害我们的人更有恃无恐，作案也更加容易。” “我现在讲这些事情不是想博得同情，我不需要它。我把它说出来是因为作为卑诗省省长，也是本省第一个民选的女性省长，我拥有最好的公众平台，我想让那些与我有同样或类似经历的女性知道不只是她们受到性暴力之害或性攻击之威胁，我真想当时我有勇气把事情讲出来，我确实知道这一点，一直知道这一点。” 卑诗省议会通过针对大学校园性侵案的立法 今年3月，针对卑诗省和加拿大大学校园性侵案频发的问题，卑诗省议会绿党议员 Andrew Weaver 提出私人法案，建议采取更加严厉的措施打击校园性侵案。但最初被简蕙芝的自由党政府否决。 数周之后，当该法案在卑诗省议会重提之时，简蕙芝改变态度，宣布其政府将支持这一法案。到今年4月，政府对相关动议进行若干修改之后将其命名为 Bill 23 提交省议会辩论。 今年5月，该法案在省议会获得通过，并给了大学和学院一年时间来实施相关法例，就在本周早些时候，卑诗大学（UBC）正式实施相关法例。 该法案内容请见：The Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy Act 
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