This Woman Tells Her Powerful Story About The Night She'll Never Forget

[Playinghardball]

Both the strength of this woman and the power of her statement are astounding


Found on the Facebook page of Eric Eztli
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=396893077004339&set=a.192892457404403.55840.100000509517296&type=1&theater
Edited to post link to Eric's facebook

[Blue_Tires]

1. incredible...

[lsewpershad]

38. And brave

[mazzarro]

39. Truly, truly brave indeed -- my absolute support goes out to her -- n/t

[madokie]

2. This brings tears to my eyes

This could be any one of the girls I know, sisters, friends any of them.

[siligut]

3. This is powerful

Allowing the perpetrators and their enablers to define the terms is like assigning the fox to rule the hen house.

[arthritisR_US]

28. +100!

[abelenkpe]

4. K&R nt

[polly7]

5. Kick, a great message. nt.

[niyad]

6. k and r for a brave, amazing woman.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. K&R this important topic!

[ceile]

8. K&R! n/t

[SalviaBlue]

9. Wow. That is one strong woman!!

[Citizen Worker]

10. Believe it or not a woman has told me the same thing. No, not that she had been raped but that

but that women who are asked for it. Her reasoning, because it had never happened to her despite the fact that "I have been the only woman in a roomful of Hell's Angels and not one of them tried to do anything."

[Ken Burch]

13. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, as they say.

And, in this society, we are trained to be obsessed with being superior to other people...and to believe that there's no such thing as an innocent victim.

Some days, this whole freaking country seems like it's a giant cycle of abuse.

[CrispyQ]

30. "we are trained to be obsessed with being superior to other people..."

Fuckin' A.

[SemperEadem]

16. wow...

Reading that makes me glad I was born me and not her

One really would have to be messed up in the head to articulate that to anyone; I'm quite sure she's said that to someone who has been raped.

Being in a roomful of Hell's Angels isn't the litmus test for who is prone to rape.

What a jerk she was for saying that to you.

[Alcibiades]

36. The real test isn't Hell's Angels

who are basically good people, but frat boys.

[Zalatix]

23. After I saw Republican women attack Ms. Fluke, I knew I was on Planet Bizarro.

[Solly Mack]

11. K&R

[Ken Burch]

12. Incredibly strong woman

And I know it wouldn't help, but I feel an incredible urge to kick the living #$%@ out of not only her rapist, but her boyfriend and her so-called "friends".

Christ...what is WRONG with us?

[libodem]

15. Samething

That makes us want to kick Afghanistan's ass for making their women wear burkas. Holding women responsible for being too sexy for their clothes, because it gives men the wrong, idea (that women ask for it by breathing, and we want it because we showed up).
Projection.

[ellenfl]

18. i used to get the

'if you party 'til 3 a.m. you are liable to attract trouble' meme all of the time. i always asked the guy who said that to me if he was planning to do the deed. pissed me off to no end. especially since i am a night owl and have seen more sunsets from the back side than from the front.

my father used to say i would never find a good man in a bar. i would ask him what that said about me, who loved the nightlife. my two best men WERE found in bars and i am still with the last one.

we need more (progressive/liberal) women leading this country.

ellen fl

[Flatulo]

22. I met my wife in a bar. We've been together for 33 years, married for 27. nt

[FlaGranny]

29. Me too -

met my husband in a bar 44 years ago. We're still happily married.

[redqueen]

19. We grow up internalizing the patriarchy's rules.

Society is deeply misogynist. There are a few bright spots, but mostly we are all indoctrinated to believe men are the default human beings and women are subordinates, the sex class.

[Chorophyll]

14. Brave and amazing.

We need to start teaching our sons RIGHT NOW that rape is never acceptable. Only consent is acceptable. And it should be enthusiastic consent. That's it.

[chervilant]

17. In contemporary research,

4 of 5 young women (18 and younger) felt that their boyfriends had the right to slap them if they 'deserved it.'

Misogyny is strongly correlated with patriarchy--indeed, how can we expect our young male children to respect our young female children, when they are persistently taught that women are 'less than'? How can we expect our young female children to be strong and independent, when they are persistently taught that rapes, relationship violence, and sexual assaults are 'their fault'?

[LadyHawkAZ]

20. The next time someone tells you how horrible

Slutwalk is... show them this.

[redqueen]

33. Misleading

People had objections to the name, not the goal.

[marshall gaines]

21. brave

brave and on point. wonder what limbaugh would do with this statement? the jerk.

[MrScorpio]

24. Everyone, check this out and give it some love

http://projectunbreakable.tumblr.com/

[nolabear]

25. Oh my God that's sad. Heartbreaking.

Thanks for posting. But I wish you didn't have to.

[LiberalArkie]

31. There are a lot of sick people out there, the older I get, the more disappointed I get in humanity.

[CrispyQ]

32. So, so sad.

Thanks for the link.

[redqueen]

34. Thanks for posting that.

Numbers don't seem to be so effective at communicating how commonplace this is.

Quotes help people really get it.

[gateley]

26. Wow, I'm old enough to be her mother -- grandmother? And she's far more brave

than I'll ever be. Inspirational.

I hope she learns how many people she's touched by this.

[arthritisR_US]

27. She could be my daughter and I would be

so proud and blessed to have her. She has hit the nail dead on and put the impetus where it rightfully should be!

[lupinella]

35. K&R

This woman is my hero.

[tallahasseedem]

37. She has incredible courage...

and could truly be a wonderful advocate for women!

[WillyT]

40. K & R !!!