"After I was sexually assaulted as a freshman by an older fraternity guy on one of my first nights out, I turned to an older girl for guidance. I was frightened at the lack of memory, bruises lining my body and disgust at hearing my assailant was bragging about sex with me in a frat bathroom when I hadn’t even remembered the night. That older girl turned to me and said, 'Welcome to college.'
Those three words will echo in my head forever. Thinking of myself that night prior to my assault makes me sick. I was disastrously intoxicated and encouraged to reach this point. I was lifeless. I was just 18 years old, fresh out of high school, completely trusting of this new organization’s world I stepped into. I was told they had my best interest in mind, and I was left vulnerable to the predatory cycle that continually silences women on this campus and worldwide. I reached out to older boys in the organization who nodded to these stories and would in turn shrug them off or comfort me in efforts to sleep with me. There was no accountability. So many of the older women around me were defeated and desensitized to the system, finding comfort in blissful ignorance."
~ Ava Notkin '21
https://dailyorange.com/2021/03/stop-rape-culture-college-campuses/
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