Taking A Stance

To many of us don't get the help that we need. To many of us have no where to turn. To many of us are blamed for what was done to us. Sexual Assault - isn't something that anyone calls on themselves. It's unbelievable that someone would blame a victim for a crime like this. There has to be a time when ppl understand the nature of Sexual Assault; when ppl understand the damage is causes & the broken lives it leaves in its wake. There has to be a time when people put the blame, judgement, punishment where it's due. How can we excuse their actions, how can we blame victims. It is completely baffling as to how one can sit back and excuse the actions of a man who preys on children, who sexually abuses them. Or a man who rapes a woman, who violates her personal boundaries, who robs her of a chance of happiness. How do we excuse those people? How are we more willing to excuse their actions? How do we give them the benefit of the doubt, how do we believe a child has made this up, or seduced her abuser. That she's somehow complicit. How can we blame someone who was raped? How do we accuse her of asking for it or calling it on herself or of somehow enticing him? It is appalling that so many stand with child molesters & rapists, stand behind them proclaim their innocence or their lack of guilt even after allegations have been made. What kind of world do we live in? We question why victims don't come 4th- It is because they are blamed, it is because they stand alone, it is because they have no support. It's because we live in a society where they're allowed to roam freely. It is because society excuses their actions and blames the victims. I will continue to say that SA isn't something that we roll over and get over the after effects are lasting. Maybe people need to understand exactly what we have to deal with on a daily basis. How we feel, what we think, how we are affected. Mayb then- what more will it take to see where we are coming from; don't our stories and our cries for help & support mean anything?