I didn't know this week would have this effect on me. Can anyone relate?

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20. I need to keep repeating this

I am absolutely furious. I am a fully engaged feminist. I have been dealing with my emotions about sexual assault and the lack of consequences for rapists and the fucked up patriarchy for a long while. I’ve been told, on this very board, no less, that there was no such thing as rape culture. That rape statistics were exaggerated. That women shouldn’t be out at night if they didn’t want to be raped. That women shouldn’t get drunk. There was even touted a school of thought in evolutionary psychology claiming rape as adaptive behavior.

There have been many, many battles, both on-line and off it.

BUT I also want to speak up for my husband, who also suffered childhood sexual abuse, and is also now suffering. He looked at Kavanaugh and said, “I can’t tell you how I know, but I KNOW he did it, I KNOW—-there is no doubt in his mind. He didn’t sleep last night. He hurts. He is also furious. He also feels impotent in his anger.

To all the victims. We hear, and we believe.