Wrong question. Try again. The real question here is, why didn’t we believe the women who came forward. The follow-up question is, how could we expect more women to come forward after they saw what happened to their fellow survivors?
I’ve acted all my life as if I do, but I don’t. So don’t read this and think that it is your right to know any of this. Read this and know that these are the stories that I tell so that I don’t explode. Read this and know that there is a good goddamn reason why I have kept my mouth shut for so long, just as there is a good goddamn reason why the women who have been coming forward in recent months were not believed before now.
Read this and know that this is my story, not his. Read this and know that it is my story, not yours.
Gracetopher Kirk 