Carly Tinkler

“I didn't want to talk. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be.”
― K.L. Speer, Bones

“Discussions about rape are so often irrational, and sometimes outright bizarre. It's the only crime to which people respond by wanting to lock up the victims. It's the only crime that is so bad that victims are supposed to be destroyed beyond repair by it, but simultaneously not so bad that the men who do it should be treated like criminals.”
― Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

“It's time to throw one idiotic notion overboard—the notion that men can't stop, that there's a point of no return once you're sexually aroused. We keep talking about women's agency, but men have agency too. Guys, tell me this: if you were in the middle of hot sex and really, really into it, and your grandmother walked into the room and peered at you over her glasses, would you stop, or would you keep going?”
― Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

“Why don't victims report? Because most of the time, the only thing reporting accomplishes is heightening the trauma to almost unbearable levels. It invites an audience to view your sexual assault. It's choosing to have no voice in the process after having it stolen from you. That's why victims don't report.”
― Rachael Denhollander, What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics