“I lose it at this point. There is no way that rape victims act - there is no way that rape victims don’t act. Seriously. If you don’t know this then you have no right to say a word about rape.
It does so much harm to so many women, the idea that there’s a way that rape victims act. It’s not just some idea that you’re spinning off into cyber-space. It’s something that women who are going through trauma have to struggle through - their own, and other people’s expectations of how they should be behaving. And it doesn’t stop - the idea of the acceptable behaviour of a rape victim gets used as a weapon again and again.”
”Maia at The Hand Mirror
Seriously, THIS! is the point that a small contingent of my former friends from governor’s school just don’t get and shoved in my face BIG TIME. And in doing so, former friends behaved in ways that do, in fact, make them rape apologists. And no, my reaction to it isn’t “unnecessary drama”
