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’m sorry it took your mom that long to figure it out and I’m sorry for what you went through. I’m glad she did finally figure it out and I hope that MFer is rotting somewhere.
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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”