“I told him to stop. He thought I was joking. I froze"
It took a long time for Kristina Erickson to realize that she had been raped in a dorm at Beloit College.
“We were kind of wrestling around,” she said. “Things turned more sexual. I told him to stop. He thought I was joking. I froze.”
Afterward, she brushed it off. But later, in her senior year, a flashback crystallized what had gone wrong, and she broke down sobbing.
Not long afterward, in the crowded basement of a fraternity house during a party, a drunk man stuck his hand up her skirt as Erickson — totally sober — was walking past. She grabbed his hand, shoved it away and yelled at him to never touch her again. In that case, she filed a complaint with the college.
Erickson later wrote an essay for the student newspaper in which she disclosed that her mother had been raped while she was a student at Beloit in the 1980s.
“I am a legacy child in more ways than one,” she wrote, “and I have inherited the rape culture on our campus that I’m sure she prayed would be gone by the time I got here.”
Erickson, 23, graduated from Beloit in 2013 and teaches high school English in the Phoenix area.
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Afterward, she brushed it off. But later, in her senior year, a flashback crystallized what had gone wrong, and she broke down sobbing.
Not long afterward, in the crowded basement of a fraternity house during a party, a drunk man stuck his hand up her skirt as Erickson — totally sober — was walking past. She grabbed his hand, shoved it away and yelled at him to never touch her again. In that case, she filed a complaint with the college.
Erickson later wrote an essay for the student newspaper in which she disclosed that her mother had been raped while she was a student at Beloit in the 1980s.
“I am a legacy child in more ways than one,” she wrote, “and I have inherited the rape culture on our campus that I’m sure she prayed would be gone by the time I got here.”
Erickson, 23, graduated from Beloit in 2013 and teaches high school English in the Phoenix area.
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In this situation what do you do?
Most often we find ourselves in situations and just like Erickson's case the guy would think you are joking. Not to be harsh on her but then if She kept insisting and was firm in her NO you would agree the guy wouldn't have continued. Or better still she could have screamed and shouted he would have seen the seriousness in her NO.
Most often we don't know how to say and be firm in saying NO. Today you have learnt something on how to negotiate NO and be firm in saying NO. When persuasion fails, force is applied so if you saying it softly and the person is not stopping, apply force by shouting and being firm in saying NO if possible, push him or her off and flee!
#EndSexualViolence #NOW
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