People around you are getting hurt, raped and killed.
Regardless of the horrible treatment, I feared that on my own, I would be hurt, raped or coerced into doing a number of things that I didn't want to do.
If we want to end rape culture and if we want to stop hurting rape victims, we need to start hearing survivors.
The man took me to the bushes and hurt me – Rape victim, 4. Sept. 3, 2015 -- A KwaZulu-Natal woman has described the horror of finding her 4-year-old grandchild who was raped, hanged and left for dead.
South Africa has a crisis of values in which men are brought up to believe they are entitled to treat women as objects to abuse, hurt, exploit, rape, harass, control and patronize.
By summarizing these experiences, it's not a mystery that women are mistreated, abused, hurt, or raped.
"I have so many triggers -- watching television, and whenever a woman is hurt or raped or something happens on TV, I think about it again.
To be hurt, beaten, raped, ignored, yelled at... day after and yet no one seems to care or at the least know about it.
Sometimes, the husband abuses the girl after they are married, hurting and raping her; but sometimes he is in the same position as her, feeling betrayed by her own family.
Like, raped hurt — not the usual "my boyfriend broke up with me" kind of hurt.
I'm in jeopardy of getting raped, hurt.
