Victim Blaming?

[Thumpalumpacus]

It takes balls to speak frankly about your experience.

You, madame, have some balls.

Eh, it was a pretty low-risk confession; I don't know any of you.   

(JK.  fact, you guys probably know more about me than most of my friends and family.  It's so much easier to bring out the skeletons in your closet when you aren't looking at someone face to face.  )

I just liked the thought of telling a pretty gal she's got man-parts, seems funny to me.

It is a bit low-risk -- I talk about my issues here in a way that I rarely do in real life. I will talk about my alcoholism IRL with strangers on occasion if I sense a sympathetic heart.

I never mention my molestation to anyone IRL, really. I've told three or four people over the last twenty-five years, and I hated doing it. Online, only here, and one other (now defunct) forum, have I felt comfortable enough to talk about it. But even then -- and even now -- it feels like attention-whoring and makes me deeply uncomfortable. So I'm going to shut the fuck up.