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Heartstrings

(7,349 posts) Thu Oct 4, 2018, 01:24 PM Oct 2018

Somewhere in America.....

a teenage girl is listening to her parents defend Brett Kavanaugh, and she is thinking to herself, "if something like that happened to me, I have nowhere to go".

Somewhere in America a teenage boy is listening as well, getting the message that “it’s ok, no one will listen to her anyway”.

#basta, #istandwithchristine, #GOTV

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Somewhere in America..... (Original Post) Heartstrings Oct 2018 OP

It could well be that teenage girl was recently assaulted YessirAtsaFact Oct 2018 #1

Getting Madder by the Minute PandoraAwakened Oct 2018 #2

welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2018 #4

I am thinking about all those terrible stories mainstreetonce Oct 2018 #3

The millions who have already been assaulted are thinking ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #5

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)

1. It could well be that teenage girl was recently assaulted

Reply to Heartstrings (Original post)

Thu Oct 4, 2018, 01:34 PM

Oct 2018

Sexually, by a date or an acquaintance and was already scared to talk about it.

Wow. What does she do now? Who will believe her?

PandoraAwakened

(905 posts)

2. Getting Madder by the Minute

Reply to Heartstrings (Original post)

Thu Oct 4, 2018, 01:37 PM

Oct 2018

Same message American girls and boys have been hearing for the past two centuries---indeed, that message is the very lifeblood that has supported and buttressed the cruelty of patriarchal systems through all of history. I'm done crying. I'm done hiding. SILENCE IS VIOLENCE.