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TW: r*pe
Coming out about being assaulted/harassed/r*ped is quite literally the most mortifying and life impacting thing for any survivor to do. Imagine putting yourself in the public eye and your trauma dissected with a hyperfocus on your sexual being 1/
Coming out about being assaulted/harassed/r*ped is quite literally the most mortifying and life impacting thing for any survivor to do. Imagine putting yourself in the public eye and your trauma dissected with a hyperfocus on your sexual being 1/
You instantly become a victim to your experience. Being known as survivor means you are known through your suffering. You become "that person" that "X scandal" was about, stripped of a life, of personhood, dimension, reduced to a name haphazardly stuck in a Wikipedia article 2/
People look at you and only think about how you were violated. They look at you strange if and when you move on, like it's ok for you to think past some life shaking violence, yet if you don't, you poison yourself dwelling on it. You are not a person anymore, 3/
you are the catalyst to someone else's downfall. Whether people think the downfall was deserved or not, you no longer have a history of your own, or agency over your narrative. it is so wrong to ask survivors to reveal themselves against their own will. 4/
It's more than just putting them in the danger, or under the microscope of public scrutiny, it's asking them to exchange the semantic of their own name. 5/
