Posts tagged ‘victim blaming’

what I knew at 14: on gone girl and false rape reports

by Tinesha If you hate movie spoilers, you should stop reading. TW: Discussion of rape and sexual assault, rape statistics When I was in high…

policing modesty

Guest post by Darryl Reid. Darryl is an activist, writer, and photographer from Ontario, Canada. It is often said that the road to hell is paved…

a few church lessons from the view of a sexual assault survivor

When I was fifteen years young, I was sexually assaulted by a guy that I thought I was friends with. I didn’t tell anyone until I…

A Skeptic’s Prayer, by Margaret Munk

Is it true
Thou lovest best
Thy meek, unasking children?

Thou hast made us
So diverse, so various,
Yet in the image
Of a Sire
Who filled a universe
With his creative fire.

What father has supposed
His child would grow to manhood
Only hearing and affirming?
What sire could honor such a son?
How could a mind that,
Like a sponge,
Absorbs but never questions,
Doubts,
Or wonders why
Be offspring and apprentice
To a God?

It may be, Lord,
That thou canst never love me
With the calm relief
A father feels
For his obedient child—
The one who’s never any trouble.

But use me
As a bridge
To those more wayward still
Than I.
I cannot give them all the answers;
But they will not ask
The ones who think they can.

Let me speak
To thy lost sheep
As one who,
Understanding how they went astray,
Still loves the Shepherd.