9/22/2018 tRUmp asks why Ford didn't report. Twitter answers #WhyIDidn'tReport, and it's trending #1 RSS (/user/KM The thing in the Oval Oce asked in a tweet, “Why didn’t someone call the FBI 36 years Wehrstein/rss.xml) ago?” So Twitter is answering. PUBLISHED TO But, in the spirit of a diary I wrote yesterday, “I am Christine Blasey Ford (https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/9/20/1797248/-I-am-Christine-Blasey-Ford),” KM Wehrstein they’re answering personally. Telling their own stories of why they didn’t report. (/blogs/KM%20Wehrstein) By the thousands. Barriers and Bridges (/blogs/Barriers%20and%20BrIitd’gse hs)eartbreaking. Feminism, Pro- And it’s trending #1 in the USA as I write. Feminism, Womanism: Feminist Issues, Ideas, & Activism (/blogs/Feminisms) trending (/blogs/trending) TAGS #MeToo (/news/MeToo) #Recommended (/news/Recommend… #Twitter (/news/Twitter) #trendingtopics (/news/trendingtop… #TimesUp (/news/TimesUp) #WhyIdidntreport (/news/WhyIdidntr… It was #1 at 9:42 a.m. EDT when I posted, and still is at 6 p.m. Share this article 1 New Comment × Leftleaner https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/21/1797518/-tRUmp-asks-why-Ford-didn-t-report-Twitter-answers-WhyIdidn-treport-and-it-s-trending-1?detai… 2/85 9/22/2018 tRUmp asks why Ford didn't report. Twitter answers #WhyIDidn'tReport, and it's trending #1 Holly Figueroa O'Reilly @AynRandPaulRyan et?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2TFh2e0r1e8 w%e2Fre9 %52 oFt2h1e%r2 rFic1h7,9 7w5h1i8te% b2oF-ys in my boyfriend's college frat tRUmp-asks-why-Ford-didn-t-report-Twitter-answersr-oWohmyI.d idn-treport-and-it-s-trending- I was poor white trash on a scholarship. 7t+report.++Twitter+answers+%23WhyIDidn%27tReport%2C+and+it%27s+trending+%231) I was drunk and drugged and passed around like a fucking bong. Like a game of hot potato. I thought he loved me. I was embarrassed and scared.#WhyIDidntReport Holly Figueroa O'Reilly @AynRandPaulRyan Replying to @realDonaldTrump Thanks for galvanizing the last of the suburban women who were still hoping that you weren't a flaming dickhole. Suburban women vote. And they are leaving you in droves. And this is why you will lose in 2020.#FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling twitter.com/realDonaldTrum… 12:33 PM - Sep 21, 2018 7,513 2,750 people are talking about this Breathe breathy breaths @omaha_runner Because the last time I had said something, I was told I was making a big deal out of nothing, it was all in my head, it was with my clothes on, I was lying. #WhyIDidntReport 9:48 AM - Sep 21, 2018 481 139 people are talking about this ITMFA @jenpalex Because he was a friend of my parents and I knew they'd never believe me. I was 12 or 13. Years later, when I did tell them, they didn't believe me. #WhyIDidntReport 10:19 AM - Sep 21, 2018 943 265 people are talking about this Rev. Believe Women Rawlings @rawlingseliza I was sexually assaulted 3 times when I was a teen: 14,16, and 17. Here’s #WhyIDidntReport Because everything I saw told me I would be put on trial not my rapists and I would likely lose. Because they were all he said she said. Because for one I was drunk at a college party. 11:13 AM - Sep 21, 2018 297 83 people are talking about this 1 New Comment × Leftleaner https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/21/1797518/-tRUmp-asks-why-Ford-didn-t-report-Twitter-answers-WhyIdidn-treport-and-it-s-trending-1?detai… 3/85 9/22/2018 tRUmp asks why Ford didn't report. Twitter answers #WhyIDidn'tReport, and it's trending #1 Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti The only time I ever went to the police was after a man tried to pull me into his car when I was 19. The beat cops were annoyed that I didn't know the make of the vehicle, or if it had two doors or four. #WhyIDidntReport 11:44 AM - Sep 21, 2018 1,870 462 people are talking about this TraCee @TraCee_tr #WhyIDidntReport because the first time it happened I was 4. When I was 6 my uncle put me in his lap and moved me around until... When I was 10... When I was 11... When I was 14... Nobody believes a foster child. Besides, all foster children are sluts anyway - is what I was told. 11:11 AM - Sep 21, 2018 433 130 people are talking about this Lezliew @Lezliew #whyididntreport because it started before I was 3. I didn’t know there was a word for it or that it was wrong. I blocked it out until high school. 5:46 PM - Sep 17, 2018 165 33 people are talking about this I Would Sign My NYT Op-Ed @engineerchick85 Because in my small southern hometown, even rape meant I compromised my "virtue" & it somehow was my fault. I would have been ostracized & hated for "ruining" such a popular likable guy.#WhyIDidntReport 10:25 AM - Sep 21, 2018 1,027 317 people are talking about this ITMFA @jenpalex Because he was a friend of my parents and I knew they'd never believe me. I was 12 or 13. Years later, when I did tell them, they didn't believe me. #WhyIDidntReport 10:19 AM - Sep 21, 2018 1 New Comment × Leftleaner 943 265 people are talking about this https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/21/1797518/-tRUmp-asks-why-Ford-didn-t-report-Twitter-answers-WhyIdidn-treport-and-it-s-trending-1?detai… 4/85 9/22/2018 tRUmp asks why Ford didn't report. Twitter answers #WhyIDidn'tReport, and it's trending #1 Kim Hornsby @kimhornsby It's a sad state in America when this is trending & women have to come forward to justify why they didn't call the law after an attack I did call They called it mischief I slept with a knife#WhyIDidntReport 11:14 AM - Sep 21, 2018 1,081 322 people are talking about this Alannah Boyle @AlannahBoyle_ I loved him and I thought he would kill himself #WhyIDidntReport 10:19 AM - Sep 21, 2018 447 86 people are talking about this MountaineerFeevaDiva @Auntie_Allison Because he worked at the FBI. Who do you think they would’ve believed? I was a couple years out of college, one of my 3 degrees was Criminal Justice. I interned for a criminal defense atty. I watched him obliterate the victim. I refused to be victimized again #WhyIDidntReport 10:55 AM - Sep 21, 2018 359 93 people are talking about this Dr. Dre @adara328 #WhyIDidntReport because of the shame I felt after going to the doctor the day after, the way they made me feel as if I let it happen. 11:21 AM - Sep 21, 2018 591 152 people are talking about this Liberalibrarian @Liberalibrarian #WhyIDidntReport I did report the abuse of my preschool age daughter by my ex and took her to the hospital. I was attacked by him and CPS and lost custody. 1 New Comment × Leftleaner I wish I had never said a word. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/21/1797518/-tRUmp-asks-why-Ford-didn-t-report-Twitter-answers-WhyIdidn-treport-and-it-s-trending-1?detai… 5/85 9/22/2018 tRUmp asks why Ford didn't report. Twitter answers #WhyIDidn'tReport, and it's trending #1 10:35 AM - Sep 21, 2018 · Las Vegas, NV 124 37 people are talking about this I have nothing to add. (Though if needed I’ll textualize it later for non-Twitter folks.) — Friday, Sep 21, 2018 · 12:56:34 PM EDT · KM Wehrstein David Leavitt @David_Leavitt I was four, and he said he’d kill me. #WhyIDidntReport 12:09 PM - Sep 21, 2018 · Boston, MA 3,668 1,088 people are talking about this Friday, Sep 21, 2018 · 12:59:46 PM EDT · KM Wehrstein Alyssa Milano @Alyssa_Milano · Sep 21, 2018 Replying to @Alyssa_Milano #WhyIDidntReport Jen Steer @jensteer #WhyIDidntReport He was supposed to be my friend, but he beat me when I said no. This is the first time I've talked about it in public. 12:17 PM - Sep 21, 2018 1,541 403 people are talking about this Chrissy @MzKhrisCoop #WhyIDidntReport because I was a new private in the Army, deployed overseas, and didn't know anyone. I trusted him because he was my NCO. Everyone loved him, he could no wrong, no one would have believed me. 12:17 PM - Sep 21, 2018 926 305 people are talking about this Amee KavaNOPE Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule 1 New Comment × I was humiliated. I knew everyone would find out. ILeftleaner was afraid it would ruin my professional reputation before I had even started. I was afraid they would not believe me and let him hold my grade https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/21/1797518/-tRUmp-asks-why-Ford-didn-t-report-Twitter-answers-WhyIdidn-treport-and-it-s-trending-1?detai… 6/85 9/22/2018 tRUmp asks why Ford didn't report. Twitter answers #WhyIDidn'tReport, and it's trending #1 back. I was afraid they would not let me graduate from law school. #WhyIDidntReport 12:06 PM - Sep 21, 2018 7,955 2,544 people are talking about this Jennifer #YemenGenocide @teddy_cat1 Because I was a baby. Because he threatened to kill me. Because my best friend was committed to a psych ward and blamed for breaking up her family because her father raped her. Because I felt shame. Because people blame the victim. I could go on for hours ..