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[FightForMichigan]

65. I can't congratulate you

I don't find your admission here very brave, even though it is honest. I don't think you're to be lauded for finally accepting the correct word for what you did.

I can't, because as a volunteer, I go to the hospital to be an advocate for people who have just been sexually assaulted. You don't want to know how many times I have heard stories just like yours, but from the other side. Stories from people who are weeping, or disoriented from the trauma, or humiliated and blaming themselves, or just plan hurt and angry. I have been a counselor to several of them, and what might have been a night of amusement for someone like you is often years of pain and healing for someone like them.

You've placed the right word to what you've done, but do you really know what it means? Do you have any idea how you have hurt people? Can you comprehend it?

In an ideal world, I'd like you to do more than just post about this anonymously on a board. I'd want you to get involved. Reach out to your local rape crisis center and ask what you can do. Talk to teenage boys and educate fraternity members.

Do something real.

Please.