karnythia:

FUCK YOU VERY MUCH IF YOU THINK A 12 YEAR OLD CAN STAND UP TO A CULTURE THAT COMPLETELY DEVALUES & DEHUMANIZES SURVIVORS!

I have to say this as a kid who survived sexual abuse & who knew I had no hope of protection. I do. The next motherfucker to open their mouth with a “Why didn’t the kids tell someone?” is getting cussed the fuck out & might get the shit beat out of them. There are things that happened to me that I still can’t talk about & I am 35 years old. No not even to a therapist. Because some things you just don’t tell people. There is a look that they get that I have no desire to see. And yes, people who do know have looked at me differently. Think about that.

I have had people sit in my face & talk about how they’d never let someone who had been molested watch their kids because that’s too much of a risk. Think about that for a second. (And before someone starts spouting that bullshit ass stat to me, let me point out that most cases are never reported. So kindly stow your thoughts about percentages of abused kids who go on to abuse. No one knows how many of us there are in the first fucking place.)

That’s before we get into how invested people are in denying that their favorite coach, teacher, cousin, grandparent etc could do such a thing or (and this argument is my favorite way to tell someone is a worthless sack of shit), how often people decide that the kids weren’t really hurt by what happened because the abuser was attractive or the child was sexy or whatever the fuck else they’re saying while I’m calculating how easy it would be to push them out a high window. 15 grown fucking men knew what was happening & they didn’t do shit about it. Judge them. Leave the survivors the fuck alone.

(via monkeyknifefight)