This is the First Time I’ve Written About My Rape, and I’m Doing it For You, Todd Akin
August 24, 2012 6:44 PM Subscribe
This post was supposed to be about how I’ve been following the Todd Akin news cycle obsessively and watching how it makes me feel.
It makes me feel really very angry.
It makes me feel anger because of what he represents. And it makes me feel so much grief and sadness for the women of the world who, like me, lose virginity through rape, instead of through positive, life-affirming experiences that demonstrate what beautiful gorgeous treasures they are, including their burgeoning sexuality. And it makes me feel so much grief and sadness for their being forced to suffer any shame further.
It makes me feel anger because of what he represents. And it makes me feel so much grief and sadness for the women of the world who, like me, lose virginity through rape, instead of through positive, life-affirming experiences that demonstrate what beautiful gorgeous treasures they are, including their burgeoning sexuality. And it makes me feel so much grief and sadness for their being forced to suffer any shame further.
This post was deleted for the following reason: We have an existing post on the Akin matter - this link can go in that thread. -- restless_nomad
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