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In reply to the discussion: The truth about what young men knew about rape years ago. [View all]Butterbean
(1,014 posts)My mother and my sister are not counted among them, either. I knew about girls being raped and assaulted in high school, and when I got to college, the women and their stories just came out of the woodwork. Stories of girls being raped with curling irons, of being raped while passed out, of being snatched on cruise ships and raped while they were young tweens, of being molested by their own fathers who were high at the time. My own family line is the product of rape. Apparently, my great great great great great (something like that) grandmother was raped long ago and conceived what would later become my maternal grandfather's lineage.
I can think of only one close friend that I know for sure was never touched (although a grown man exposed himself to her when she was a child), and one more that I *think* has never been molested. That's it. Every. single. one. of my close friends has either been raped or molested. It's that pervasive.