To any fellow survivors out there: I believe you. I hear you. I see you. Your story matters; whether you ever say it aloud or not. 🖤
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The President of the United States said Iran should bomb and kill Americans in San Diego and it was a 1 day news story.
We are so lost.
We have normalized absolute insanity.
I'm old enough to remember when having a hint of an affair would ruin you politically. Now if you rape children it's like "meh. but did he lower my capital gains tax?"
This guy overheard me arguing with someone on the phone at the bar and came up to me and goes “I like the way you argue can I get your number so we can argue”
Honestly 10/10
I still think about the fact that, everyday Drew checked if the phone was gone because if it was, it meant that there was a 60% chance Melody was crying. That’s one of the most romantic things I’ve seen #bb28
We’ve created a society where victims are punished twice: first by what happened to them, then by how everyone judges them for it. The person who speaks up is called dramatic or attention-seeking and somehow the people responsible often become secondary to the person who was hurt
Imagine being a kid and dying of measles, a disease we completely eradicated 27 years ago… because your parents watch Fox News and are as dumb as a fucking dickhead with a dickheaded brain
She did so well. She fought for herself and gathered a significant amount of evidence
Lot of survivors are forced to do the investigative work after being severely harmed
Imagine if the standard for "real" theft was: "if I try to take someone's phone and at any point they stop fighting me, then I didn't steal it, they gave it to me."
That's how many men treat sexual assault.