And I’m not generally a rageful person. It’s just that there is a raw ember of anger in me, usually buried under all my perfectly genuine good cheer and faith in humankind, and sometimes it flares up. I wonder if all survivors have it. It’s anger at the sheer callousness and carelessness of men who rape. Carelessness about someone else’s feelings, carelessness about another human being’s integrity. So careless that you would send a rose the next day, maybe not even knowing that what you did was wrong, or that you have now made another person’s life so much more difficult—for what? Do you even
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