"Eventually, years later, I eat eggs again."

July 10, 2014 10:19 AM

A touching sad comic about how one woman dealt with her sexual assault. (slMedium) (TW: recounting of rape)
posted by Kitteh (15 comments total)

Oh my God. Thank you for posting this. That's all I can say.
posted by SkylitDrawl at 10:21 AM on July 10, 2014

I love her way of putting it -- "I thought I could have another story." So simple, so common.
posted by likeatoaster at 10:23 AM on July 10, 2014 [14 favorites]

Powerful comic.
posted by Flood at 10:27 AM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Wow. "No one would believe that I didn't fight" hit me hard.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 10:29 AM on July 10, 2014 [5 favorites]

I expect that many of our rape stories (mine included) don't involve the perfect victim and the perfect rapist. We all want a different story. She is incredibly brave to have put this out there. This is very, very powerful.
posted by Sophie1 at 10:37 AM on July 10, 2014 [9 favorites]

Wow, "I compartmentalize" hit me in the gut. Like many, many people, I've had experiences I wish I didn't have, including sexual experiences, and I just don't think about them. Sometimes they pop into my head, and then I make weird noises or shudder or whatever, but I just don't think about them. There are parts of my memory that are basically closed rooms and I try like hell to keep those doors closed and sometimes at night they open anyway but I do what I can to get through the day (I also have bipolar so some of my painful memories wouldn't even seem that bad, but to be honest I don't even know what most of them are because I don't think about them. The past is not a place I choose to visit). I compartmentalize, and I try only to open the doors I want open. You do what you can.
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 10:39 AM on July 10, 2014 [19 favorites]

The friend
posted by Pudhoho at 11:20 AM on July 10, 2014 [8 favorites]

Oef.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:32 PM on July 10, 2014

Wow. "No one would believe that I didn't fight" hit me hard.

That line ignited both tears and a white-hot fury.
posted by Pudhoho at 12:45 PM on July 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

Aw man, this is exactly what went through my mind after I had a similar experience, except he was the one that made breakfast and I stayed and ate it because I don't know.
posted by Aubergine at 1:45 PM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Yikes.
Wow.

There are so many hidden rooms in my mind.

I often ask myself why I didn't fight. Why I kept dating the jerk. All my fault. All my fault.
posted by kathrynm at 2:02 PM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

I ordered a pizza for the guy who did the thing I don't call rape. It was almost twenty years ago. I think I'm ready to let old me off the hook for it now. It's okay, old me. That shit was fucked up.
posted by palomar at 2:13 PM on July 10, 2014 [13 favorites]

That is a really powerful and moving piece. Thank you for posting this.
posted by Dip Flash at 4:17 PM on July 10, 2014

So well done. For me it was "I don't want to be beautiful anymore."
posted by rip at 3:45 AM on July 11, 2014

So incredible. Thanks for posting.
posted by corb at 5:28 PM on July 12, 2014