She Says

One of the best true crime series I’ve ever listened to. I desperately want a new season!!

This is a story that I could not stop listening to because it tells the story of every woman- each of us has lived through rape culture. This is a “go-to” share to help people “get” what it’s like to live in America as a woman- we are still fighting to be recognized as citizens, fighting for the equal rights amendment to make discrimination illegal, we are paid less, harassed and assaulted in the daily. The strength shown by this woman’s story is beyond belief. I’m so proud of her and it gives me strength to keep supporting all the women and LGBTQ folks I know who have been raped, assaulted, and emotionally abused by cis men. THANK YOU.

Are we sure that Melanie Peacock isn’t actually Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Omg they sound just alike and appears to gaslight just as much. Love this podcast.

Sexual assaults are so often dark, ugly secrets that so many of us do not talk about, let alone report. We fear blame, embarrassment, judgment, shame, loss of friends and family...rarely do you hear a victim of sexual assault talking in confident, secure tones about what happened to them. So often I hear the apology in our voices, and I note the way the volume drops. We protect parents, spouses, children, bosses, co-workers from the sordid details of a crime that never leaves us. We often feel a strange guilt for saddling others with our story of being assaulted - no one really wants to hear it. But they need to hear it - and hear it - and hear it. We need to talk about it again and again until we begin to shake the stigma. Because the stigma is, at least in part, this: if your audience can find a reason a life-altering, destructive, nightmare crime like rape happened specifically to YOU, then they can take a deep breathe, think to themselves they would never do that/go there/talk to him/ and so THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO THEM. Until it does. She Says is getting us talking, thanks to Sarah and Alex and all at WFAE. And thanks primarily to Linda, who has willingly placed herself on the autopsy table of public opinion in order to get the conversation going that may make it a little easier for the next victim to report it, and may serve as a brutal and hard reminder that the first order of business should always be: BELIEVE HER.