To anyone who doesn't understand why women don't come forward to report sexual abuse: the UNITED STATES PRESIDENT said i

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‪Andy Ostroy‬
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To anyone who doesn't understand why women don't come forward to report sexual abuse: the UNITED STATES PRESIDENT said it's a HOAX after Epstein survivors recounted their harrowing tales of being raped as minors.




WATCH: ‘The abuse was real,’ Epstein survivor implores Trump, who again calls case a ‘hoax’

Link to tweet

[Irish_Dem]

1. Historically women are never believed when they tell the truth about being raped.

[Mossfern]

3. Even if we are believed

we are often blamed.

[piddyprints]

6. My mom's favorite line:

“She asked for it.”

The woman who has never been sexually abused in some way seems to be quite rare. It’s a shame that some of us can’t even get support from our mothers. It’s a huge risk to come forward, even to our families.

[Mossfern]

8. I hear you

My own parents were ashamed and had a hard time even speaking to me.
They left me in the care of my then boyfriend - now my husband.
I was attacked by a stalker who followed me and broke into my apartment.
He had been watching me for days from the fire escape outside my window.

The police told me that my curtains weren't thick enough.
My apartment was a fourth floor walk-up - the window was in the back of the building, not exposed to the street. The curtains were maroon in color - they were not sheer.
There was no counseling for rape victims back then - nor such a thing as trauma therapy.

This was 50 years ago and I'm in therapy now - diagnosed with CPTSD and PTSD.

[synni]

12. Sending you love and support

May your therapist guide you to the healing you deserve.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Yes, we were wearing the wrong clothing, acting the wrong way.

In the wrong place at the wrong time.

Etc Etc.

[GiqueCee]

2. Trump...

... is an especially repulsive kind of sub-human filth. I look forward to reading his obituary, the sooner the better.

[OMGWTF]

4. When "it" happens, put up Christmas lights, drink something bubbly, and dance!

[IcyPeas]

5. Blame women

[Skittles]

10. truth right there

women are blamed for what they do and what they don't do

[Orrex]

7. They had to know he'd do something like that...

Yet they STILL had the courage and integrity to come forward.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Yes, the same President who ordered jet fighters to fly over them

while they tried to speak out, NINE FUCKING TIMES, in order to try to drown them out and intimidate them. I'm sure they're getting death threats from his cult followers, too. These women have more courage on the tip of their pinkie fingers than the entire GOP combined.

[Joinfortmill]

13. TickTock, you beast.