Sexual Abuse and Assault

I was 16 when I was raped by my best friends ex boyfriend. He got away with it and all of my friends turned against me because of the lies he told. He left me there and I had to walk home from the school footy oval where it happened covered in blood and act like nothing happened. I’m so sick of the justice system failing women and girls. I’m so sick of the patriarch continuing to embolden men to commit these acts and not fear consequence. I’m so sick of rape jokes and for being told to lighten up when I say they’re not funny. We need serious change in Australia and it should start with this case. Justice for Anastasia, I stand with you xo

We as a culture need to stop placating misogynistic abusers, rapists, traffickers, and exploiters with a shrug on the shoulders, a pat on the back, and a “boys will be boys” attitude. And we as a culture do not have to let people profit off their crimes nor should we profit off their crimes. On behalf of all survivors of abuse, rape, trafficking, and exploitation please end the Tate Brothers platform for profiting off of their sexual crimes. Thank you.

I’m a social worker who has worked with victims of abuse for 25 years. We can’t continue to ignore the devastation caused by sexual abuse!

It shouldn’t even be said why this sort of thing should not be acceptable. We should not normalize or fetishize this sort of behavior. Some may compare it to other games that have you do illegal stuff; but rape should not even be comparable. This is personal, this is traumatizing, and this has affected many real people.

As a teacher, I hear hundreds of young men admitting that they don’t know where to turn to learn about sex or healthy relationships, because they are constantly faced with this filth. I hear as many teenage girls thinking that this is something they have to look like they are ok with for fear of being rejected or broken up with. Our society is drowning in consent programs, and then producing ‘games’ like this. For those of us who saw the red lights in ‘Adolescence’, who claim to care about young people, violence against women, or the hearts and minds of our future men, the responsibility falls to each of us to see material like this returned to the put from which it came, and seen for the sickening version of sex that it is.