THE SKYLINE VIEW A Special Section
U.N Report states that deadliest place for women is their home The U.N. report also disclosed that women are extremely more likely to die from domestic violence than men are, citing that 82 percent of intimate relationship homicide victims are women and 18 percent are men. “In the past year we have seen growing attention to one manifestation of this violence,” Guterres wrote. “Sexual harassment is experienced by most women at some point in their lives. Increasing public disclosure by women from all regions and all walks of life is bringing the magnitude of the problem to light...” The study suggested that violence against women has increased in the last five years. The study draws on data from 2012 in which 48,000, or 47 percent, of female homicides were perpetrated by intimate partners or family members. So what do we do about this? By Lauren Gozon TSV Digital Editor
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), released the “Global Study on Homicide: Gender-related Killing of Women and Girls.” The report revealed that 87,000 women were murdered by someone in their home in 2017 and analyzed the violence perpetrated against women, particularly intimate-partner violence and family-related killings. Over a third of those intentionally killed in 2017 were slain by a former or current intimate partner.
To put it into perspective, this means that, on a global scale, six women are killed every hour by someone familiar. In a statement from António Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, the violence against women and girls is described as a “global pandemic.” “At its core, violence against women and girls is the manifestation of a profound lack of respect — a failure by men to recognize the inherent equality and dignity of women. It is an issue of fundamental human rights,” Guterres said.
“The incredible double standard that we [women] face on a daily basis, in the industry and just in the world, it’s shocking. I would be so amused, and pardon me if this comes across as sexist, but I don’t think a male artist would be in this position right now. Sorry. If I’m speaking about something that I’m passionate about, I’m willing to take the brunt for fighting in what I believe in and my fellow women are definitely something that I will always be one of the first to speak up about.” - Ariana Grande, Billboard’s Women of the Year 2018
The study is a call for governments to help us shed further light on violence against women by collecting necessary data and reporting on it. Many of these homicides could have been prevented. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, director of policy analysis and public information at the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, told The Washington Post that more than 30,000 of those homicides were the direct result of domestic abuse and violence. “When a female loses her life, it is not without predictions,”
Lemahieu said. “You see incidences of verbal and other forms of violence. The pattern is established long before the homicide.” Steven “Steve” Aurilio, retired police sergeant for the Daly City Police Department and coordinator of the Administration of Justice Program at Skyline College, stated that during his 33-year career in law enforcement, violence perpetrated against women was common. “Domestic violence, violence perpetrated against women in general, and sexual assaults, has increasingly been at the forefront of headlines in recent years,” Aurilio said. “What used to be on the ‘back burner’ of attention, these and similar offenses are now gaining national attention. Because of this I believe that we are now on a pathway that will go beyond simply becoming more aware and sensitive to these troubling issues.” Leslie Herrera, who has an AA degree in criminal justice, said that, “A lot of people don’t acknowledge that it’s (abuse) is not only physical, it can be verbal and mental abuse” as well. Universally, violence against women is underreported to authorities, according to the U.N. study. Is there a solution to stopping the violence? Some may say, “well, just don’t be violent.” However, the problem is too complex to just have one solid solution. Violence against
“When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
women is rooted in several cultures around the world and the point in time to start unlearning all of the oppressive and backward values and qualities are long overdue. “So, how do we fix this?” Aurilio asked. “Well, educating the public is a good start. It should begin early. Perhaps teaching children in the grade schools that harming women, or anyone, is not right.” This is a huge call for law enforcement to protect its victims and empower them while holding their abusers accountable for their actions. Ariana Hernandez, a business marketing major and blog writer, said that our community needs to, “respond differently to abusers and voice this issue as much as we enforce voting.” Hernandez also believes that therapy should be more easily accessible to those who have suffered from abuse. “Not all of us have the will and strength to overcome such on our own,” Hernandez said. “Men need to be involved in efforts to combat intimate partner violence/family-related homicide and in changing cultural norms that move away from violent masculinity and gender stereotypes,” the U.N report stated. The report was released to coincide with its International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which was prompted to raise awareness of gender-based violence around the world.
“We teach girls shame. Close your legs; cover yourself. We make them feel as though being born female, they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up--and this is the worst thing we do to girls--they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian Novelist
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Special Section
Dec. 6, 2018
Lovey’s serves up authentici-tea Martha Gellhorn is considered one of the greatest war correspondents and journalists of the 20th century?
Lovey’s Tea Shoppe is located at the intersection of Highway 1 and Rockaway Beach Plaza in Pacifica, CA on Dec. 3, 2018.
By Olivia Bowman TSV Copy Editor
Lace curtains fill the windows. A row of gently-used mismatched seating rests outside of the 1950s diner-style business. Holiday lights glow from within and through the glass doors making it easy to see the many trinkets that line the walls. An eccentric business, Lovey’s Tea Shoppe in Pacifica has been serving customers high tea for the last six years. Lovey’s Tea Shoppe sits at an intersection of Highway 1 at the Rockaway Beach Plaza, but its unique decor and location make it a coveted destination for locals and out-of-towners. Part of Lovey’s Tea Shoppe’s charm comes from the mismatched tea sets and warm atmosphere of the establishment. Co-owners of Lovey’s Gillian Briley and Muna Nashashibi were intentional in creating a more comfortable ambience for Lovey’s as a way to differentiate it from their first business, Lovejoy’s Tea Room in San Francisco, which has a more formal feel. “I love the fact that everything is mismatched, kind of like going to Grandma’s house for tea,” said Rebecca Creighton, the kitchen manager at Lovey’s. Catering to a wide demographic, Creighton detailed Lovey’s customers: “kids having tea parties, people celebrating their
90th birthday, men and women, and people from across the country and as well as other countries.” Chantal Jones, a customer of Lovey’s, touted the “lovely, eclectic shop” for its “victorian inspiration, good food and nice tea.” Briley and Nashashibi are a bestfriend-and-business-owner duo. Their friendship started in 1981 when they attended San Diego State University together. They kept in touch after Nashashibi moved to Ireland and started providing tea services out of a bedand-breakfast. “She fell in love with the tradition,” Briley said. After returning to the U.S. to care for her father, Nashashibi found herself living in San Francisco, the same city as her college friend Briley. They decided to start a business there called Lovejoy’s Tea Room with the unique selling point of offering a high tea service. “In the beginning, we didn’t know what we were doing,” Briley said. “We were scared, but we developed communication skills.” Nashashibi put her marketing skills to use when trying to get Lovejoy’s up and running. As for Briley, before she was a co-owner of Lovejoy’s she was working as a stage manager for theater productions. “Stage managing helped prepare me,” said Briley about running the
Photos by Olivia Bowman
business. Briley and Nashashibi grew their business over the course of about 10 years. They sold Lovejoy’s Tea Room, but it is still running today and is women-owned as Briley proudly noted. This business venture that was only supposed to last a year, became a passion project for the women when they found they loved it. Situated in a location that was once thought to be “the death of all businesses” by locals, Lovey’s is not only surviving, but thriving. Briley and Nashashibi helped a former employee open up a Lovejoy’s in Redwood City, and on this particular day, the face of a future Lovejoy’s is in the shop. Brendon Constans, who was once a regular customer at Lovey’s, is moving to Portland, Ore. and wanted to start a Lovejoy’s Tea Room there. “We want to help others realize their goal of starting a tea room,” Briley said. What seems evident from spending any amount of time with them is the amount of support they offer each other and others. “[Opening a business] takes it to the next level in friendship and now our friendship is stronger,” Briley said. “There’s a level of trust when you start a business with your best friend.”
Mismatched china like above are a hallmark at Lovey’s Tea Shoppe on Dec. 3, 2018.
Gillian Briley (left), Brendon Constans (middle), and Muna Nashashibi (right) pose for a photo on Dec. 3, 2018. Briley and Nashashibi are co-owners of Lovey’s Tea Shoppe and Constans is a future tea shop owner.
You can visit Lovey’s Tea Shoppe at 4430 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacifica, CA 94044
By Lauren Gozon TSV Digital Editor
Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American writer, travel writer, and journalist who was considered one of the great war correspondents during the 20th century. During the span of her 60-year-long career, Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place. Ernest Hemingway, an American author was Gellhorn’s husband from 1940 to 1945. Gellhorn met Hemingway during a Christmas family trip to Key West, Florida in 1936. The pair agreed to travel to Madrid, Spain together in order to cover the Spanish Civil War of 1936, in which Gellhorn had been hired to report for Collier’s Weekly. Just two years later, Gellhorn, while in Germany, reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler. Dedicated to her life as a reporter, Gellhorn often took long absences which caused a strain on her relationship with Hemingway. Gellhorn traveled over Western Europe to cover World War II, first starting in Britain. Gellhorn was firm on her stance to be there when the Allied powers prepared to invade Nazi-occupied France in 1944. Regardless of the lack of U.S. support for female correspondents reporting on the front lines, Gellhorn stowed away on a medical ship to report on the D-Day landings. She later recalled in her book titled “The Face of War,” “From November 1943, with one unavoidable break in the spring of 1944, I followed the war wherever I could reach it.” She was the first woman to land in Normandy on D-Day. In the same autobiography, she wrote, “The U.S. Army public relations officers, the bosses of the American press, were a doctrinaire bunch who objected to a woman being a correspondent with combat troops.” On April 29, 1945, during the liberation period, she was one of the first journalists that entered Dachau with American troops and reported on the infamous concentration camp. Her coverage of major world events, including the rise of Adolf Hitler and the liberation of the concentration camp in Dachau is precisely why she holds the prestige of being one of the greatest war correspondent and journalists in our nation. Her accounts of the major world events and her ambition to report on them was a landmark piece of journalism and redefined what it meant to be a journalist. Gellhorn wrote in her novel “The View from the Ground,” “Journalism is education for me. The readers, if any, may get some education too but the big profit is mine. Writing is payment for the chance to look and learn.” In her final years of life, Gellhorn fell ill, and had ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver and she also suffered from blindness. On February 15, 1998, she took her own life in London by taking a cyanide capsule. The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism was established in 1999 by the Martha Gellhorn Trust to honor her. Gellhorn had documented many of the most influential events of the 20th century and had she not done this, we would not have eyewitness accounts of the events that took place. She continues to be an inspiration and model to many female journalists and war reporters today.