alexis's blog

I usually avoid fictionalized rape stories.  A movie, a show, a play, any sort of performed or written narrative meant to dramatize the emotions of the rape victim or "reveal a message" about rape and its consequences/influences.  I'm more tolerant of personal narratives and writings by actual rape victims, but I've just seen so many helpless-looking young ingénues with mascara streaming down their faces alternate between hysterical tears and stoic silences peppered with angry bursts of "don't touch me!" and frankly, I don't believe them.