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It needs to be a repeated message, over and over. A few years back we did a project where we talked to survivors and asked them to recount what happened afterwards. Who was the first person they told? How did that conversation go? They recounted pretty consistent experiences of telling a parent or best friend, who then asked them lots of questions that made them feel like it was their fault, as if their own actions had led to the assault.

Then we interviewed the person they had disclosed to, the parent or best friend, and asked the same questions. Their memories of that first conversation were very similar, but it turned out that their meaning was quite the opposite of how it came across to the survivor. They were terrified of saying the wrong thing, of reacting in a way that would make things worse.

So their solution was to stall for time by asking lots of questions until they could figure out how to be supportive and helpful. They had no idea that those questions could come across as blame. They had no idea—and would have been devastated to find out—that their effort to be supportive actually made things worse.

The reaction of the first person a survivor tells is so important; it makes such a difference to their recovery. Every generation of kids needs to learn appropriate behavior. So that need is never going to go away, but hopefully the sheer number of people who need to reach out for help—about , last year and nearly three million since we started—will decline. The fact that networks were willing to put messages about rape into prime time gave many survivors the confidence to start talking about what they experienced.

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