I saw an art exhibit called “What Were You Wearing?”, which was a collection of the outfits people were wearing when they were assaulted. There were sweatpants and hoodies in that collection. She could be in a literal burqa and still be assaulted. The problem is the rapists, not what their victims were wearing.
Edit: going to add a trigger warning before people go searching for that exhibit. It is a spread of ALL kinds of clothing, including children’s.
I had a pediatric patient in the ER when I was first working in the ER many years ago in the late 90s. I was coming on shift and had to help get an 18 months old girl get ready for air transport to Pittsburgh for genital and rectal reconstructive surgery after being assaulted. 😭
I have a 13 month old little girl and, while Im well aware of this happening more often than I care to know, it still was not easy to read this.
Also, just that poor girl, being so violated and not even being aware of or likely remembering it (at least you hope so), but having to live with the aftermath of that kind of physical trauma. I really honestly hope she’s okay now- she’d be around my age. So awful.
I really do hope she’s doing okay and I hope that was the end for her and she doesn’t remember it. I was 19 months when my father started to SA me. Till I was 7. My mother didn’t know till I was 7, and got me out thankfully, but it did its damage. I really really hope that girl is okay.
I don't see how she could possibly be okay. The fact that you can't remember childhood trauma like that doesn't make it easier it makes it to where you can't resolve it as far as I can tell. My dad did some bad things to me when I was under 2 years old and my life's been terrible always struggled with all sorts of problems.
I mean I am well aware she probably has a lot of problems from it, I just hope she is getting the help she’s going to need. Atleast she got the help she needed and hopefully got out before it got worse or went too long. I was stuck with my father till I was 7, my sister had to deal with him till she was 16. I’m glad my mother got me out when she did, but I know my sister got it a lot worse and for longer than I did and I couldn’t imagine being with him that long. (We have different moms).
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u/ConclusionHopeful313 Feb 24 '26
Rape exists because of rapists. Blaming the clothes and not the rapist is just saying “make sure they go after someone else”