June 2012
“TW: RAPE The experience of being raped has touched every aspect of my life. People like Ron Rosenberg, the PR head for Tomb Raider, tend to talk about rape like it’s some character-building challenge to overcome, a wound that heals into scar tissue, making you tougher. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding. Rape isn’t a scar, it’s a limp — you carry it with you as long as you’re alive, and it makes life harder, not easier. Being raped does change you: it’s more than non-consensual sex, it’s psychic murder. The person you were beforehand ceases to exist and you can never, ever be them again.”
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anonymous, “The R Word” (via morecoffee)
The last 2 sentences. Read them over & over & over. They are the most truthful sentences I have seen in years.
(via missgingerlee)
Very true. Five years later & it still feels like yesterday.
