Summary

The website content expresses a woman's outrage and personal experience with the societal and legal challenges faced by women regarding their bodily autonomy, particularly in the context of sexual assault and reproductive rights.

Abstract

The author of the web content articulates a profound sense of injustice and anger towards the disrespect for women's bodies as evidenced by recent legislation, such as the Alabama law making abortion illegal, which she views as a violation of human rights. She shares her own traumatic experience of surviving sexual assault and the subsequent impact on her life, including PTSD and anxiety. The piece underscores the burden survivors carry and criticizes the societal expectation that women should bear the consequences of assault, including unwanted pregnancies, while their attackers often face minimal repercussions. The author emphasizes that survivors did not choose to be assaulted and should not be treated as 'damaged goods' or 'less than' because of their trauma. She calls for a fight to restore women's fundamental human rights to equality and bodily autonomy, expressing a commitment to this cause until her dying breath.

Opinions

The author is outraged by the Alabama law that criminalizes abortion, viewing it as a dystopian attack on women's rights.
She is critical of men who abandon women after learning of their sexual assault history, viewing such trauma as inconvenient 'baggage.'
The piece conveys the author's personal trauma from an attempted rape, which has left her with PTSD and anxiety.
The author is appalled by the notion that women should be responsible for raising a child conceived through rape.
She emphasizes that rape is a weapon of war and that women in the first world also face a survival war, challenging the idea that rape is less prevalent or impactful in developed countries.
The author calls out the injustice of a system where old white men make decisions about women's bodies without understanding female anatomy or experiences.
She expresses a sense of betrayal and shame about living in North America due to the regressive laws affecting women's rights.
The author extends solidarity to male survivors of rape and assault, acknowledging their shared trauma and right to equality.
She vows to fight for the restoration of women's rights and equality, framing it as a battle that may cost lives but is worth the struggle.

I’m a Woman, and I’ve Got Baggage

But I am not damaged goods, nor did I ask for any of this.

The disrespect for women’s bodies which is still festering in modern society is screaming louder and clearer today.

In light of the decision made in Alabama this week to make abortion illegal and threaten to throw women in jail for 99 years if they chose to make a call for their own bodies and commit an abortion themselves, we are living in dystopian times.

Utterly horrifying.

In my shared rage with other women over this blatant atrocity and violation of human rights, I am hearing some other disturbing dialogues taking place with female friends and their male love interests.

Love interests who seemed to be the kindest and most equalitarian men, who then run for the hills when they find out that said friend is one of the 1/3 women who will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime, and one of the 1/5 women who have been raped or almost raped in her lifetime.

Her trauma is viewed as inconvenient baggage. Baggage he didn’t sign up for.

Well, welcome to the f*cking club, buddy. We didn’t sign up for this sh*t, either.

Because no one asks to be violently and traumatically sexually assaulted and violated.

If we’d had a say in it, we wouldn’t have been raped or almost raped in the first place.

It’s not f*cking rocket science. We didn’t ask to be attacked, dumba**.

I’m enraged, and for a damn good reason.

I live in Canada, but I am disgusted and infuriated for my fellow sisters in the states, and especially in Alabama.

To the girls and woman who not only are refused abortions as an option period, but even those who are victims of incest or rape being refused of their right, with no exception.

They didn’t f*cking ask for this. And I can tell you from experience, the trauma left behind from sexual violation is enough of a burden to bear for years and years after the assault.

But now, a woman who has had her right to consent stolen and violated out of her, must now take on the unwanted responsibility of being a parent?

No. She did not sign up to be raped. And she certainly did not sign up to be the mother of a child she’s not ready for, who is half-comprised of DNA from the man who attacked and traumatized her through the weapon of rape.

It is absolutely despicable to hold something that was committed against a person as an example of why she is less deserving of her rights, or her story, or her voice.

My whole life and identity is NOT made up of that one fateful night in which I was attacked.

I’m saving my virginity for marriage. This is my right to choice and consent in action.

My first boyfriend, who was an entitled piece of garbage, was unable to convince me to give up my virginity before marriage. So, he got impatient and frustrated, and tried to rape my virginity out of me without my consent.

I now suffer from PTSD, episodes of paranoia and general anxiety because of the trauma I carry from being violently attacked.

So now, I have this baggage of violation and the injustice of it will be part of my story for the rest of my life.

And I really, really f*cking wish that wasn’t the case.

But what am I supposed to do? My choice and my consent were not taken into account that night.

It didn’t matter to him. And now I sometimes have panic attacks, and my paranoia tries to convince me other days that my attacker is going to break down my front door to finish what he started.

One night of inconvenience for him, a lifetime of trauma for me.

If you think I asked for this sh*t you are deranged and incredibly ignorant.

So don’t you dare try to use my trauma, or the trauma of my fellow survivors, as a piece of evidence against us to prove we are in some way less than.

We didn’t ask for any of this — we are victims of a weapon of war.

Yeah, that’s right. The United Nations labels “rape” as a weapon of war.

If you think that just because we live in the first world we are not fighting a war for survival, you are frankly very, very wrong.

We are being raped and brutalized and violated, and our rapists will get a $400.00 fine while you will lock up our victims for 99 years if they try to seek healing on their own terms for their violation.

There are old white men sitting behind desks who have literally no understanding of the female anatomy who are making the call for what women are allowed to do with their own bodies.

We are being systematically raped of our consent with every law which limits our human rights and discredits our stories.

Final word.

Privileged men — most of you do not know this rage. So it may alarm you to read it.

See, you have the luxury of living life where you’re at the top of the food chain. You don’t have to worry about laws being put into place telling YOU what you can and can’t do with your bodies.

Some of you may actually know this rage and violation personally, and for that I am deeply sorry.

You are not alone, we are here for you. We survivors look after our own.

I also hope that you are an ally and you are fighting alongside us to restore and achieve our fundamental human right to equality.

I am saddened, and disgusted, and cannot believe that I will be telling my daughter about how in my 20s abortion was illegal, and punishment for it was given a steeper sentence than rapists who violated other human beings.

I am ashamed to call North America my home today.

I am enraged for my fellow woman.

I will fight until my dying breath for the equality we all deserve.

That is my promise to you, fellow women. This is not the end, only the beginning.

We will get our rights back and then some.

Or we’ll die trying.

I’m Sorry My Independence Inconveniences You

Oops, did I go against what you expected of me? My bad.

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To the Guy On The Internet Who Tried to School Me in How to Be a “Proper” Woman

There’s nothing I love more than the unsolicited advice of entitled men.

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