What the rape culture looks like on one person.

[shadesong]

TRIGGER WARNING FOR THIS WHOLE POST. I'm trying to walk the line between trigger warning and cut-tagging, because cut-tagging things means no one reads them

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[sarapada]

I read this whole post.

[scifantasy]

I read this whole post.

[fjm]

I read this whole post.

I have never been raped. When I was 18 I joined a group of women in a play about rape, and one of the things I learned was that there is clear evidence that rape culture is a culture, not a set of single incidents.

[crewgrrl]

I read the whole thing.

When I was 16, my life fell apart. Someday I'll tell you the whole story of my dad's death, but this is not the forum. I was fooling around with my on again off again high school boyfriend because I wanted to feel good about something. And I decided that sex would make me feel better. I was very insistent about condoms, and he was good the first time. It hurt some, and it wasn't going anywhere. We took a break, and then he started again without a condom. I told him to stop, to put a condom on. Instead he kept going, pulled out and came on my back.

I didn't think it was rape then. I mostly stopped thinking about it afterwards, because it was all tied up with the fact that he had been fucking someone else at the same time and she thought she was pregnant. I didn't know anything except that it wasn't right, and now I had to get tested for everything.

[rose_lemberg]

I read this whole post.

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