by CrimsonInTheDetails » Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:07 am
Trigger Warning: Aftermath of Sexual Assault
I had left the place where men kept hurting me in 2018. About the time I left the place where I experienced the various assaults that I did, the government had started various campaigns against that sort of violence. Today was a bad day for me for remembering those things, and I ended up searching in Google about preventing sexual violence and my old governments initiatives surfaced.
When I read about the different programs that they're making to help police respond better to reports, I lost control. I lost control when I read that they're piloting a project to give free legal advice too. I pictured myself trying to explain the assaults in 2008 and the revictimization in 2014 and I couldn't imagine that the outcome would be any different than it was five years ago. I feel like I've missed the conversation. I wasn't able to be present for the #metoo movement. As a response to being turned away by the police I had shut my social media accounts down, and I shut down my last social media account last year. I had been a social media presence since social media's conception, and I lost belief that anything could change.
I don't really know if I believe it or not. I guess I don't. I don't know how to enter this idea of sex positivity when men have been absolute monsters. No one can turn back time to when I believed there would be a man who loved me, and that love wouldn't be abusive, rapish. I don't have that story in my heart anymore. My old government has documents trying to point men into caring and respectful relationships and I don't think they want to be respectful or loving. In my heart I don't believe. If i stay realistic I'll fight a man when they come,as I should.
These token changes came too late.
Diagnosis DID-sometimes do not identify as anyone at all
Bitterness- 31 yrs old
Red- 26 yrs old
Fourth-Born- 31 yr old host
Shamrocks-21 yr old female
Gauntlet-16 yrs old, age-slider, agender, and liason of childhood fragments
Whisper-female, ageless?