💔 When Girls Say They Are Being Ignored, Why Aren’t You Listening?

When girls say they are being ignored…

• Why do so many adults look the other way?

• Why are systems quick to defend boys, reputations, and institutions—but not the girl who’s been hurt?

• Why is a girl’s pain called “drama,” “misunderstanding,” or “a phase”—until the damage is too deep to deny?

Girls are not making it up.
They are not being “too sensitive.”
They are not “confused.”

They are sounding the alarm.

And every time a coach, teacher, school official, parent, or peer chooses not to listen, another predator gets covered. Another wound gets buried. Another Survivor is made.

📣 The Silence Is Never Neutral

• When you dismiss her words, the abuser gets bolder.

• When you delay action, her trauma compounds.

• When you defend your program, your team, your “reputation,” you send the message loud and clear:

  Her safety was never your priority.

🚨 Girls Are Experts in Being Dismissed

They’ve watched:

• Boys get second, third, and fourth chances

• Coaches tell them to “stay focused” and “not let it be a distraction”

• Schools circle the wagons around athletes, staff, or donors

• Even other girls get rewarded for being silent

So when a girl still speaks up, despite all that?

Believe her. That took courage forged in fire.

At Rosaschildren, we believe girls.
We honor their instincts.
We protect their right to speak—loudly, clearly, and without shame.

When a girl says she’s being ignored, believe that she has already tried everything else first.

And ask yourself:
Will you be part of the silence, or the reason she was finally heard?