Making Friends with Anger
The last few weeks have been extremely tough. It has always infuriated me when victims are blamed for their rape. It doesn't matter how long ago it happened, what the circumstances were, what the victim was wearing, what relationship the rapist has to his or her victim, or if the people involved have been intimate prior to the rape. If there is no consent, it is rape...PERIOD. The victim is not to blame. What happened to her or him is a violation in the worst possible sense of the word. I broke my silence 3 years ago and went public just over a year ago. During that time I have heard and read stories of pathetic people who blame the victim for the rape, but I was, gratefully, never on the receiving end of victim blaming. That changed a few weekends ago. I always thought that if I was on the receiving end of such vile behavior I would be able to defend myself and fight back. I would never allow someone to make me feel shame about being raped again. I knew exa