Post by ck4829 on Feb 4, 2017 14:45:04 GMT
How Revealing: Not victims’ clothes, but their experiences of sexual assault on this website
Take away the names from these harrowing accounts, and you'll find experiences that resonate with countless people of all genders.
A man talks about the time his wife (then girlfriend) was raped by her friend’s roommates. With the help of counseling, she believes she has put the incident in her past now. But only her husband knows of the nightmares she still has, for when she wakes up in the morning, she doesn’t remember screaming the night before.
A girl talks about the time her uncle, someone she loved going to the beach with, forced himself on her. She cried and begged him to let her go but he stifled her screams. “I became quiet; I was stopped for screaming. I'm quiet since then and I'm not able open up with people,” she writes.
A non-binary person talks about being bullied in a boys’ boarding school for not being 'masculine' enough. A teacher sexually assaulted them multiple times because of their posture not being 'manly' enough.
The name ‘How Revealing’ was zeroed in to challenge the exercise of victim-blaming and turn it on its head. “One of the most common things you hear is how revealing the victim’s clothes were. I want to reveal how redundant this argument is: whether it is clothes, the time of the day they were out or anything else,” X says.
www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-revealing-not-victims-clothes-their-experiences-sexual-assault-website-56417
Take away the names from these harrowing accounts, and you'll find experiences that resonate with countless people of all genders.
A man talks about the time his wife (then girlfriend) was raped by her friend’s roommates. With the help of counseling, she believes she has put the incident in her past now. But only her husband knows of the nightmares she still has, for when she wakes up in the morning, she doesn’t remember screaming the night before.
A girl talks about the time her uncle, someone she loved going to the beach with, forced himself on her. She cried and begged him to let her go but he stifled her screams. “I became quiet; I was stopped for screaming. I'm quiet since then and I'm not able open up with people,” she writes.
A non-binary person talks about being bullied in a boys’ boarding school for not being 'masculine' enough. A teacher sexually assaulted them multiple times because of their posture not being 'manly' enough.
The name ‘How Revealing’ was zeroed in to challenge the exercise of victim-blaming and turn it on its head. “One of the most common things you hear is how revealing the victim’s clothes were. I want to reveal how redundant this argument is: whether it is clothes, the time of the day they were out or anything else,” X says.
www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-revealing-not-victims-clothes-their-experiences-sexual-assault-website-56417