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If you’re a survivor and you feel comfortable wearing it, I think it will have the effect of reminding people that rape is something that happens to real people.
Talking about the rape in counseling can be therapuetic because if helps the survivor, in a safe setting, discuss the inevitable feelings of shame, and fear and lack of control and slowly process the traumatic event.
I mean, I can make my own damn shirt if I want to tell people about my experience, and one passive sentence that marks me as an object wouldn’t do it.
Perhaps I am just too conservative - but, I can’t imagine ever wanting to wear this - and even though I know intellectually that rape is intensely personal and everyone experiences it differently - I don’t think I would be able to help judging whoever I saw wearing such a shirt as, at least, incredibly damaged and mixed-up for choosing to wear something so personal on their sleeve, as it were.
I think people should decide for themselves (as we luckily have the freedom to do) whether or not they feel comfortable wearing a shirt like this.
A lot of people seem to think that because they don’t like the shirt, or because they don’t think the shirt will serve any useful purpose, then the shirt should not be made and must not be worn.
Far greater, it seems to me, would be the attention society as a whole would be forced to pay to the issue if EVERY woman (or man) who had been raped wore the shirt in solidarity on the same day.
While I don’t think this shirt would solve any problems, I think it works as an awareness-raiser.
The best thing this shirt could do would be to lessen the shame of women who are raped so that they report the crime more often.
I am not even close to being “over it”, although most who know me do not know I was raped.
Though a person who has been raped may not have been in control of the situation at the time, it does not mean they cannot “own the experience.” (I’m fortunate never to have experienced sexual assault first-hand, so I can only speculate here.)
The t-shirts would succeed at making a lot of conservative misogynists angry and uncomfortable, and that’s a good thing.
As for the abortion shirt I’m pro-choice, but I don’t think it is a good idea to celebrate abortion.
Keyshia Cole, Leona Lewis, Fergie, Ciara, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J Blige, Rihanna, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus, Ashanti, Nicole Scherzinger and Natasha Bedingfield are all decked out in their black Stand Up To Cancer t-shirts.
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