I asked...Society Answered

The monologue of a teen who dealt with sexual assault before she was out of elementary school.

Have you ever noticed when people talk about sexual assault it's alway's the victims fault. As if she asked for a guy to take advantage of her body. Society keeps the victims silent while the criminal walks free. And when the victim finally decides to tell her story. She's silenced yet again. Called a tramp, a s**t, but worst, a liar.

Let me tell you something... I was assaulted... at age six. Barely out of kindergarten. I saw a dick before I knew it's purpose. So society, it's your turn to talk. Did I ask for it? Did my tightly pulled back ponytails lead him on? Was it my fault? WAS IT MY FAULT? Was my poodle too s****y for the playground. Was I a s**t. Because now I am. I asked for it. I asked for the pain. I asked for the constant anxiety. I asked to be afraid of men. I asked to push away anyone who TRIED to dig below the surface. Because god forbid they got close to the core... It's so easy for you to shrug and say I misunderstood the context. Yep, I misunderstood a grown man's junk waving in the air at my eye level. It's easy for you to tell yourself it never happened. It's easy for you. Not for me. Not at all. I have to live with it it. I have to carry the baggage. I have deal with it, and move on...Even if I am carrying 100 lbs. of baggage. It's my problem, not yours.

But you know society, you're right. I asked for it.

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[Philip Muls]

It is obvious that you did not ask for it. And you need to see that most people will see it that way. But I agree with you that society does not make it easy to speak up, to call it for what it is.

I know what a burden it is to carry a childhood trauma with you. You cannot forget. But you can give it a place. Good luck.

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