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"Not long ago, several of Newton's women friends told him they had been sexually assaulted. His first reaction was to retaliate against their assailants. Asked what he felt when the was told what had happened to his women friends, he said: "Anger, and fear for them. It makes you want to act and do something physical towards the bloke who did it." Instead, he joined an international campaign to get men and boys involved in the prevention of violence against women. As a White Ribbon Foundation ambassador, he has publicly taken the oath. "I swear never to commit, excuse, or remain silent about violence against women." One in six Australian women has been the victim of rape, or of a non-penetrative sexual assault, a joint study by researchers at the University of NSW and the University of Melbourne shows. Do you have women friends? Sisters? A wife, a daughter, a girlfriend, a mother? While indigenous women are far more likely to be raped, the statistics cut across all races and ethnic groups, all socioeconomic classes, and all geographic regions. So it is almost certain that whether you realise it or not, you know a woman who has been sexually violated. One in six, or almost 20,000 women a year, the Australian Institute of Criminology says." SMH july 2, 2012 Interesting that a man has to make a public declaration that he will not "commit, excuse, or remain silent about violence against women." Why do we have to state the bleeding obvious? Simple answer: Men, behave like men and problem goes away. Behave like the man God has called you be. Do we want to be governed by our feeling and be subject to our emotions? Or governed by the Image we have been created for?