When I tell people about it, I do it in a way that protects their anxieties, their fears of human fallacy; I do it in a way that allows them to feel whole and safe and unburdened.
13 years ago, I took my rapist to court.
Andrea Dubé
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Don’t. We need to feel your pain, we need to be traumatized by your trauma, we need to be heart-broken, debased, defiled, abused, as you have been and still are. Do it for us, and maybe, just maybe, it would a tiny bit better for you. The crime committed against you is appalling, and it was not committed by one man alone, it was committed by an entire culture. By sanitizing your pain you are letting us off the hook, and that you must not do. We did this terrible thing, now we must suffer along with you.