CC BY-ND 2.0 Lex Wick / Flickr. Some rights reserved.You must not show weakness. You must not mention your vulnerability. Don’t kill the vibe with your sob stories. Stop making stuff up to get attention. Grow up.
After a Ukrainian journalist’s hashtag inspired thousands of Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian women to publicly recount personal stories of sexual assault and harassment on social media, thousands more have responded with anger and irritation.
But both the stories and the reaction to them are part of an important process of acknowledging, evaluating — and hopefully changing the way people deal with trauma in this part of the world.
