Systems of Silencing
the goop podcast
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I'm Not a Victim of Sexual Assault
I never sued or took my abusers to court. Nor is it a matter of conscience. I did not want to write it because it should not matter. But of course it does, because a girl who is at will so often assume the fault lies with her. There is no escaping a primal culpability. To believe in the perfect victim is to believe in no victim at all. And i know that was in the context of you having had, or having other sexual experiences, and this idea that like you're just not a good girl any more,. You are. It's some, somehow, some has been crossed that makes this, what happened to you, given or acceptable - which i...
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