UPDATED: If you missed Melissa Harris Perry this morning (now w/ link)

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you just missed one hell of a statement she made to Richard Mourdock.

Apparently, MHP is a sexual assault survivor and she basically went off on him about his "God's will" statement. I still have goosebumps. I'll try and find a clip to post later.


"When we survive sexual assault, we are the gift." MH Perry


http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/10/27/harris-perry-for-rape-survivors-mourdocks-remark-was-another-attack-on-consent/

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1. Kick for updated link. nt

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2. Her letter to Mourdock was very powerful....

very moving in expressing the strength of survivors of rape/sexual assault.

"When we survive sexual assault, we are the gift." Exactly.

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3. That gave me chills.

When I was 16 I was molested by a supervisor during a shift at a hospital where I worked after school in the housekeeping department. To this day, at the age of 54, I still think about that molestation with a bit of nausea. It was something I never told anyone about for 25 years. I was only molested, so I can only imagine the pain of rape. These men that call themselves Republican, Christian, so on and so on are sadists.

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4. Thanks for the link. Will view later.