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03:51 pm
 pen_grunt[Link] | This rings very true, for me. If someone had asked me a few months ago if I had ever been sexually assaulted, I would have answered "No, of course not".
But thinking more about what sexual assault is, myriad examples flooded to my mind...And they kept coming and coming. It was shocking to me how much so many things had happened and I had simply normalized them and never labeled them as sexual assault.
I had never thought about those incidents in that frame before--because they didn't affect my life greatly, I wasn't traumatized by them in the long run, and I wouldn't want to think of myself as a "victim". And, of course, I never pressed charges.
So I can most certainly see how someone could be raped and say "wait, was that really rape" and not believe that they're the person who gets raped. |
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