I am seriously over people joking about sexual and domestic abuse. All the jokes told about rape and victimising;I am sick of the lot. People ignoring sexual abuse cases and treating them like their nothing, because the victims "asked" for it, is sick.
People don't realise the things that assault like this can do to a person. People always take these kinds of thing lightly. They'll play around and pretend to get touchy with their friend as a joke and say they're 'getting raped'. They'll walk somewhere by themselves and then tell people afterwards that they were 'scared of being raped'.
Every one thinks that it's funny. But it's not. Imagine being violated by a stranger or EVEN A FAMILY MEMBER, being harassed and frightened and traumatised by the fact of someone touching you and forcing you into things you don't want.
I hate how people don't think boys go through this. Boys get sexually abused. Just like girls do. And it's even harder for them to talk about it. Because apparently, for some unknown reason, boys don't have feelings, and boys don't experience things like girls do. Which is a whole pile of crap.
And when people joke about getting 'abused' at home, that's what makes me the most angry. Just because you got into an argument with your sibling and they pulled your hair or they punched you in the arm, DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE GETTING SERIOUSLY ABUSED AT HOME.
Everyday, people live with the secret of being abused in their own home. They're threatened, punished, mis treated by their family and they can't tell anyone. Because they're scared. Scared shitless. They get hurt even more if they tell people.
Not only do the get physically abused. They get bullied by their own family. They get put down, told hurtful things. They HATE living in their own home.
And you think getting shoved a little or yelled at by your brother is bad.
Imagine fearing your own family. Being assaulted, neglected, hurt by your own flesh and blood. Not wanting to go home because you're scared you'll get hit for doing something wrong. Not wanting to come out of your room because you're scared of being pushed into a wall and bashed with a fire poker. Or a bat. Or a fist. Or assaulted with knives.
It's not ok to ignore this stuff. And it is certainly not ok to joke about it.
So stop it. Because you never know, the person sitting next to you could be going through this kind of stuff and you don't even know it.
