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One of the most constantly told myths in society is that rape ruins lives and that women can never possibly heal from rape, and that if you're raped, you'll never heal and will never experience any happiness in your life ever again. This is all a myth. Is rape traumatic? Yes. But is it impossible for victims to heal or have a decent life. Hell no! This idea that they can never heal is actually a myth. So why do rape victims have trouble healing? Two reasons: many of them don't ever report the rape or tell anyone about it. They all plan on taking what happened to their graves. As a result, they don't get the help that they need, which prevents them from healing. Another reason why they have trouble healing is because society teaches rape victims that they can never heal and will forever live in eternal 24/7 misery and horror, which also prevents rape victims from healing. If rape victims immediately talked to people right after it happened and were taught that they CAN heal, and actually got help, they'd be able to heal more easily. Feminists and IT-fags claim to be against misogyny, but this teaching that women are fragile, vulnerable people who can be permanently destroyed by rape is the most misogynistic thing i've heard. If you aren't dead, and what happened is over, you can recover and have a decent life, and I find it messed up that society teaches victims to allow a piece of flesh between the legs to control the rest of their life. I read an article by a rape victim named Charlotte Shane who wrote about how she won't let some piece of flesh between the legs control the rest of her life. Also, Fay Weldon is a rape victim and even she said that rape isn't the worst thing that can happen to a woman. And if rape is all about power, which feminists constantly say, then why give the rapist all that power by allowing what they did to control you the rest of your life? Teaching rape victims they can never heal goes against the idea of female empowerment, so obviously feminists don't care about empowering women. What's interesting is that 1st wave feminists believed women were resilient instead of vulnerable when dealing with sexual violence. Even feminists in the 60s believed that rape isn't the worst thing that can happen to a woman. I remember hearing that when women were given the option to be tortured/killed or raped, they picked being raped. Also, I remember asking someone if Auschwitz/holocaust survivors can heal from their trauma or have a decent life. And they said that holocaust and auschwitz survivors probably had a difficult life after what happened but they probably still can have some joy in their life. Surviving Auschwitz and the holocaust is WAAAAY more painful than rape, yet people will say that nobody can possibly heal from rape or have any happiness again if they're raped. I honestly don't think that even the most severe trauma can give you lifelong misery and horror. Even people with that type of trauma can still have happiness at times. Teaching women that rape is so bad that death is preferable just leads to rape victims taking this seriously and deciding to commit suicide.
This moral panic over sex offenders, pedophilia and sexual assault didn't even begin until the progressive era (1890-1920). Sure, long time ago people still executed you for rape, but back in ancient times they executed you for all kinds of things. The way people interpret rape nowadays didn't begin until the progressive era and it didn't get as intense as it is now until the 1970s with the anti-rape movement. The reason we think that sex-crimes ruin lives but Auschwitz can't completely ruin lives is because of how we interpreted sex since biblical times.
TL;DR: if you're raped, only a small amount of your life can be taken away from you if you get the help you need and are taught you can heal. if you're murdered, all of your life is permanently gone. Can being raped make your life much harder. Yeah. but is it impossible to heal? Hell no!
This moral panic over sex offenders, pedophilia and sexual assault didn't even begin until the progressive era (1890-1920). Sure, long time ago people still executed you for rape, but back in ancient times they executed you for all kinds of things. The way people interpret rape nowadays didn't begin until the progressive era and it didn't get as intense as it is now until the 1970s with the anti-rape movement. The reason we think that sex-crimes ruin lives but Auschwitz can't completely ruin lives is because of how we interpreted sex since biblical times.
TL;DR: if you're raped, only a small amount of your life can be taken away from you if you get the help you need and are taught you can heal. if you're murdered, all of your life is permanently gone. Can being raped make your life much harder. Yeah. but is it impossible to heal? Hell no!
