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When I think back at all of the missed cues handled by the PSPD when it came to my rape case and subsequent stalking all I can think of is "when is this shaming going to end?"
So much bullshit and so many people that absolutely know what I've been put through, what Christopher has been put through and all of our friends...it's amazing and disappointing at the same time.
It's hard enough being the victim of a rape and surviving it, but to actually have a picture from that rape put on a postcard and used as advertising for an art show two months after my sexual assault...without it raising the eyebrow of even one cop? It's simply one of those days where I look at the time it has taken to get to where I am and I think, "what if I had done even more?" Certainly it would have been ignored and brushed under the carpet, but how many other people have suffered through this kind of ordeal without anyone realizing that this is a huge problem.
Nobody that I know has ever seen that postcard and said, "that isn't you". They all know it's me and they all think that our police department would never have allowed this to happen to a woman. I can't imagine having a better piece of evidence than an actual photograph from the rape...and an art show scheduled where the police could have caught the photographers...bungled, jumbled and very inept policing which just shows you what a gay man goes through differently than a woman.
Let the shaming begin again with Laurie sitting in her home with more of my stolen life telling everyone how wonderful she is and how funny it was at the time...for her.
I'm stronger than most...but this situation would make Oprah cry.
