We Must Listen To Survivors Of Sexual Violence

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I wish women didn’t have to rip our pasts open and show you everything and let you ogle our pain for you to believe us.

“Women attacking other women for not including men in the #MeToo movement feeds into the exact problem about why women’s issues are rarely taken seriously. Women are constantly fighting men’s battles for them and not their own.”

— Nicole Lashomb, therainbowtimesmass.com

Tagged: Sexual Abuse, Misogyny, Meninism

“Are men victims of sexual abuse? Absolutely. Should they be more encouraged to speak out and be made to feel safe, respected, and listened to? Of course. But women are finally being able to air their trauma — and it can't, can't, can't be treated as competition.”

— Lea Rose Emery, bustle.com

Tagged: Not All Men, Sexual Abuse, Trauma

“Men: step up. About birth control. About sexual assault. About sexual harassment. About toxic masculinity. It's your work, too.”

— fancynancynyc, twitter.com

“Every time a man is accused of something bad, or when someone he knows is accused of something bad, the same quote surfaces: ‘As a father of daughters, I …’ Here’s the thing: Only a sociopath needs a daughter — or a sister, a girlfriend, a wife — to make him queasy enough at the thought of a sexual…”

— Hunter Harris, vulture.com

Tagged: feminism, Patriarchy, How We Think, Misogyny, Sexual Assault

“You don’t need to be the parent of a daughter or the grandfather of a little girl or the husband to a wife to understand that bragging about ― and committing ― sexual assault is vile.”

— Emily Peck, huffingtonpost.com

Tagged: feminism, How We Think, Sexism

“Consensual sex’ is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as ‘non consensual sex’, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn…”

— Anonymous, facebook.com

Tagged: Sex, Rape, Rape Culture, Sexual Assault, Misogyny

“What I felt is not uncommon among victims of rape or abuse. Rape is such a violation; the feeling of worthlessness is almost universal. It wasn’t my fault. But I was broken. No one would want me anymore.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com

Tagged: Rape, Abuse, surviving

“Gender-based violence does not exist without other systems of violence, especially those built to uphold white supremacy (such as racism, colonialism, zionism, militarism).”

— Mahroh Jahangiri, feministing.com

Tagged: Sexual Assault, racism, Intersectional Feminism, White Supremacy, Patriarchy

“Abusers and manipulators don’t act toxic to everyone, so just because they’re good to you doesn’t mean they didn’t abuse someone else.”

— FOR THE FALLEN MEMES, twitter.com

Tagged: Abuse, How We Think

“Healing is layers. Healing is time. Healing is excruciating. Once you think it’s done, it’s not.”

— Mary DeMuth, amazon.com

Tagged: Healing, healing process, Healing Yourself

“Are we made uncomfortable by loud or angry women/trans/GNC people of color? Do we understand why people don’t report to the police? Do we get why policing should not exist? Do women of color make as much money as white women do in your anti-violence org? Does your anti-violence panel/workshop/confer…”

— Mahroh Jahangiri, feministing.com

Tagged: WOC, inclusiveness, Intersectional Feminism, White Feminism

“On February 8, 2009, at 12:30am, Chris Brown beat Rihanna’s face into a landscape of craters and bruises. This is the architecture of violence. Later, Chris Brown described their relationship as being similar to Romeo and Juliet’s. In 2013, David O. Russell groped his niece’s breasts and claimed she…”

— Meggie Royer, writingsforwinter.tumblr.com

Tagged: Poetry, Writing, Sexual Assault, Trigger Warning, Rape Culture

“…to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there s…”

— Anonymous, mercurynews.com

Tagged: Brock Turner, Stanford Victim, Sexual Assault

“May Anthony Rapp's voice be the one which is amplified here. Victim's voices are the ones that deserve to be heard.”

— Zachary Quinto, twitter.com

Tagged: Sexual Assault, Victim, Twitter Quotes