It is never the victim's fault

While I am not a victim of sexual assault myself, I know too many people who mean the absolute world to me who are and who will never forget what happened to them.

It shouldn't take something happening to you or someone you care about for you to speak out or help those who are helpless.

1 person being sexually assaulted is too many.

It affects everyone from the person on the street to Olympic gold medalists. It affects everyone from friends, family members, neighbors, and co-workers.

It shouldn't take a personal experience to do something about it or to care.

It's very easy to take a very defensive stance in this, "Oh I/my friend/my coworker/my brother would never do that."

But we need to acknowledge that the things we’ve seen under this hashtag have happened in part because we have allowed them to happen.

The way we have treated women and reacted to them whenever they decide to speak out against it is absolutely horrid.

We have a president who not only condones these actions but honestly normalizes them.

This needs to end.

This has to change.