We all have different strategies for coping. Here is one survivor’s.
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Only our boys can stop rape
For years and years, we’ve been telling girls and women to make sure they don’t get raped.
Degrees of rape
That’s right.
Some rapes are not as bad as others. Some rapes are less traumatizing than others, or should I say more acceptable than others, given that the people who write this kind of garbage are making excuses for rapists.
A needed response
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but….
I Am Jane Doe
I was fourteen years old the night my friend G took me to my first kegger. We told my mom we were going to “a little get together.” I remember almost nothing about the evening—flashes, mostly. I remember absolutely nothing about being raped that night.
I might never have known about it, except that N--a woman I’d met the night before--mentioned it casually the next morning when I woke in a strange house with what might have been my first hangover.
Sadly, I'm not the only blogger telling her story or giving others a platform to tell their stories. (Sadly? That's right. Because we shouldn't have these stories at all, never mind so many of them.)
I’m not keeping quiet
missjosephinemarch guest blogs….
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So, I’ve been toying with the idea of commenting on the globally notorious Steubenville rape trial, and the subject of rape in general. And I almost decided against it – because it’s a little controversial, isn’t it? It’s not something we talk about. That’s what we do with rape. We keep it quiet. We stay silent. And that’s how we help to ‘feed’ a rape culture. So, silence be damned. And, while I’m aware that rape is not limited to women and girls, this piece is about society’s attitudes towards rape and women, so I’ll be using the female pronoun.
Telling our stories
They need to know
I need you to read this post: Teach Your Children. . . Well, and then I need you to listen to me. Really listen to me.
Steubenville’s Jane Doe asked people to do something….
I can’t reblog from Tumblr to WordPress, so here’s the original link to this blog post, and I’ve copied the text of it below (see the original post for links within the text).
This is what strength of character looks like:
I’m angry
Really, really angry.
For days, now, I’ve been watching the coverage of the Steubenville rape case.
