I used to say just follow your heart, but my heart always led me in circles

[shamanicshaymin]

Lately, I've been having disturbing dreams of Madoka surviving attempted assault by young men with professional careers (like teachers), and they often look like the doctor from Mad Father. I say attempted because Homura always steps in just in time to beat the shit out of them, but that's small consolation since Madoka's already shaken from the experience anyway. Thank god the actual show doesn't have rape; the main cast has enough on their plate already.

How DARE Amanda Berry be happy instead of acting like a "real rape survivor" should!

I share Landrith and Miers' disgust. It's amazing how insensitive and stupid people are regarding rape.

I don't tell a lot of people this for her own privacy, but a family member of mine is a survivor of sexual molestation. She's moved on years ago, and no one acknowledges that the culprit was ever part of our family. We never needed to. He never was. Still, knowing that it happened to her and some of my friends is something I can't shake off and ignore, especially with the rampant rape culture in our society. It still baffles me that victims are constantly blamed for someone else's crimes, then dismissed and made a mockery out of. Do we say a kitten is "asking for it" and "should have fought back" if its owner tried to drown it? The fact that it's never a victim's fault should be common knowledge in 2013, but it's not.

Gah, I'm going to look at pictures of hedgehogs to cheer myself up.

Comments

[sarajayechan]

Ugh, I HATE THAT. How dare a rape survivor be happy and move on with their lives?! That's a reason I hate rape in fiction, the victims are always "WAH WAH WAH I'M DIRTY FOREVER I WANNA DIE I'M A WHORE I'M SCARED OF THE WORLD NOW" and people don't acknowledge that even if rape victims FEEL like that initially, they don't have to forever! No, it's always "oh, she spends the whole movie/story arc taking baby steps to overcome the trauma and only at the end she's just now fully healed dancing in the sunlight with a butterfly!" Some people get past the trauma quickly and dance with the butterflies right away. Not all survivors are cut from the same mold!


And ugh, I am SO sorry to hear that about your family member. *HUGS* Victim blaming and rape culture should have died years ago. Why are people still so fucking stupid about it?

[valkyriur]

If this was friends-only I'd comment on personal experience. I'll just say that: No, not all of us react the same way. And I'm kinda tired of people telling others they aren't "acting right for having experience [x]".