Reply #6: If you combine the two than I guess, in a way, I was lucky [View All]

[salin]

I was raped. Not drunk at a party. But raped.

Didn't get pregnant as a result.

Never thought of the first situation as a reason to consider myself "lucky". And you know... even though the latter didn't happen - I still don't feel lucky.

Many rape victims know that they have two distinct lives. Life pre-rape; and life post-rape. Can't begin to describe how much changes in that one moment.

Because I have seen some pretty ignorant things posted on rape threads in the past, I stay off of them like the plague. Because sooner or later there is some statement about the victim being lucky for not getting pregnant as well (and this is usually while challenging whether or not a rape was committed, or while explaining how more frequently "false accusations" happen than rapes :eyesroll: