Past Due Notice: There comes a time when we have to deal with the women who uphold the harm against children...Some high-profile adults are facing
Past Due Notice: There comes a time when we have to deal with the women who uphold the harm against children…
Some high-profile adults are facing consequences right now for minimizing trafficking and downplaying the harm done to teens.
Some are calling that backlash “misogyny.”
But children deserve the truth:
Holding an adult accountable for protecting predators is not misogyny.
It is safeguarding.
At RosasChildren, we honor this simple principle:
Children and teens must always come before anyone’s status, reputation, or comfort — including a woman’s.
And here’s the harder truth many avoid:
Women can participate in rape culture too.
Not because women are the source of violence,
but because rape culture recruits everyone it can —
including mothers, teachers, celebrities, and community women
who are conditioned or rewarded for defending harmful systems.
Rape culture relies on adults who:
dismiss teens’ discomfort
shame victims instead of listening
defend powerful men
silence girls who speak up
call accountability “hate”
protect the institution instead of the child
This isn’t protection.
This is collaboration with harm.
Children are watching. Teens are speaking. And they deserve to be taken seriously.
When young people come forward — especially teenagers — it takes courage.
It takes risk.
It takes a deep internal knowing that something is very, very wrong.
They deserve adults who respond with:
belief
steadiness
clarity
action
Not excuses.
Not deflection.
Not narratives that protect adults over children.
Accountability is what safety looks like.
It’s what healing looks like.
It’s what justice looks like.
No matter the gender of the adult.
No matter their fame.
No matter how many people adore them.
At RosasChildren, we stand firmly on this:
**Children’s safety is sacred.
Adults do not get immunity from accountability simply because they are women.**