I'm T. I'm a survivor of sexual violence. No pity, no shame, no silence.
I wonder what it would be like if we were visible all the time. There would be a lot fewer people complated about inflated statistics, I'd imagine. And maybe less stigma, if we're as close to a simple majority as it often feels like. I've been in plenty of those social situations when you look around and realise that your group well exceeds that much-bandied-about 1-in-4 statistic.
When I was young, before I was assaulted, I went to a Take Back the Night rally with an older cousin who was also a survivor of sexual assault. And seeing everybody there, with their armbands and their ribbons, it made me *so angry* and so confused that there were *this* many people, even in my small city, who are victims, because that means that there are this many, or *more*, people who are terrible enough to inflict this abuse. And I was confused, and angry, and so very young. And then I grew up.
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Date: 2004-08-03 06:34 pm (UTC)I'm T. I'm a survivor of sexual violence. No pity, no shame, no silence.
I wonder what it would be like if we were visible all the time. There would be a lot fewer people complated about inflated statistics, I'd imagine. And maybe less stigma, if we're as close to a simple majority as it often feels like. I've been in plenty of those social situations when you look around and realise that your group well exceeds that much-bandied-about 1-in-4 statistic.
When I was young, before I was assaulted, I went to a Take Back the Night rally with an older cousin who was also a survivor of sexual assault. And seeing everybody there, with their armbands and their ribbons, it made me *so angry* and so confused that there were *this* many people, even in my small city, who are victims, because that means that there are this many, or *more*, people who are terrible enough to inflict this abuse. And I was confused, and angry, and so very young. And then I grew up.
Thank you again.