“As a 19-year-old college student, she was raped at gunpoint and beaten beyond recognition during a night shift working at a Payless ShoeSource. “I blanked out and had an out-of-body experience, like I was hovering above seeing this horrible thing happen to someone else—not me,” says Gabrielle, who got through the trauma partly because of an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show she had seen days before on victims of violent crimes.
“That’s why I now lobby for state legislatures across the country to help raise funds and awareness for rape crisis centers, and I speak to college girls about what happened to me. My goal is to never hear the words ‘me too’ from someone after I say ‘I was raped.’ ”
Its very sad that she had to deal with this. Good for her for working though it.
I remember hearing her recall the story in an interview. Amazing survival story.
Now where’s DV to say there’s no such thing as rape or that her efforts are to enact laws to lock up more black men. (half-smile)
Nah Sasha.
Gun + Beaten + Robbery = Rape
Date + Ecstasy + 12 Wine Coolers = Sluttish sex, regret and blame.
I simply don’t think the men involved in these two very different events deserve the same punishment. (You don’t either. quarter-smile)
Unfortunately, the way the “law” is written and enforced real criminals and foolish males are treated equally severely.
ALOT OF WOMEN WHO GET RAPED ARE TOO SCARED TO EVER TELL, AND IF THEY FINALLY DECIDE TO…. ITS TOO LATE.. I KNOW…. PERSONALLY… NOW I HAVE TO SEE HIM OUT AND ABOUT SOME TIMES…. IT HURTS AND HE KNOWS IT, HE WILL SMILE AT ME EVILY AND ENJOYS THE DISCOMFORT I GET