Okay so I’ve been meaning to tweet this all week buttttttt

I think it’s time we have a discussion about sexual assault that has traumatized young (black) boys. I specially wanna talk about blacks boys because this seems to be a ignored phenomenon in our community.

Recently I’ve had 5 different male friends open up about the sexual assault they have faced from men but mainly women at ages as young as 4. Many people in their lives don’t know what happened because they feel like they can’t open up about it.

Although my friends have seemed to turn the shame and confusion of sexual assault as a child into “oh well i like eating pussy” or “i fuck really well now” it’s wrong. It’s wrong to believe young boys are more capable of handling early sexual experiences because they are boys.

I really wonder how many of my brothers have been holding this in for years and internalizing their trauma into broken relationships and meaningless sex. I want us as a community remove the taboo nature of talking about sexual assault to boys and in general.

I truly believe that although both are heinous, women are given more room to work through the sexual violence & trauma that may occur to them. & it’s not even that much. Imagine how men feel when you hear “your supposed to know what women look/taste/feel like”

Brothers i want you to know its ok to know what happened is not ok. I want you to know that you have completely nonjudgmental allies that wanna see you be your best self. I want you to get in loser, cause we’re going to unpack our generational & childhood trauma to end the cycle

Update: if we really are denoting and rectifying a culture of rape where sexual assault is the norm and women are victimized for being attacked, than we also have to consider the culture from the juxtapose standpoint of men. Where boys are assaulted & expected to be okay about it