Sherlock | Veronica
I am as well, actually, even though it means discussing some painful things.
Exactly. I just...what kind of world are we living in when this happens? Reporting a rape is a horrific and traumatic experience even under the best circumstances. All you want to do after you find out something awful like that has happened is to take a shower and change your clothes and that's the worst thing you can do. It's just...I found out who my attacker was by watching the show I was from, and it still makes me sick. He raped me because his brother taunted him about being a virgin. My consent, what I wanted didn't even matter. I was just a warm body that couldn't say no. We're obviously doing something wrong that my story isn't more rare. Just since starting my group, I've heard so many stories, and women are always so sure that they didn't experience 'real rape' or attack. Screw that! If you think that you've been assaulted in any way, you HAVE been. So many women just feel silenced by a society that disbelieves them and distrusts their own opinions. No one would ask a murder victim why they were walking down the wrong street or question whether it was 'just bad death' and not murder at all or whatever bullshit.
It's so true. The society as a whole is diseased. It is amazing that instead of thinking of the fact that rapists have to be punished for their crimes that we don't mourn that fact that a young girl's whole life and outlook on it has changed forever. She won't be the same, ever again. A little bit of her died that night. I would know.