Epiphanic thoughts: Sexual Assault

WARNING: This is a heavy subject readers discretion is advised

Several nights ago in a dream I was on a trip with my family and best friend and somehow got separated to another part of this dream dimension. I turned a corner and there was a beautiful black stiletto on the floor. I made the mistake of picking it up. It was a signature move (like in the film Home Alone when the robbers left the water on in the house they robbed) a woman who was at least 6"10 emerged from the shadows and smiled. She looked at the shoe and back at me and common sense told me the shoe was hers. She wore elaborate clown makeup and Victorian style clothing under a black cloak that touched the floor. Her hair was midnight black and long enough to touch her elbows.

All of a sudden she pinned me down and I felt my clothes coming off and her fist making contact with my ribs and other parts of my body but I was paralyzed with fear and couldn't do anything. I woke up and fell back asleep. In the dream dimension I entered a restaurant and saw a similar black stiletto. My heart rate accelerated. I knew the woman was going to reappear and this time she moved faster and I was sexually assaulted  and beaten again. For at least an hour I was terrified of getting out of bed because I thought she might appear. I thought if I saw a black stiletto I would have a flashback of that nightmare and relive the pain. Then the scariest epiphany I'd ever had hit me like a bullet train.

For some people the nightmare of sexual assault is a reality and they will have to live with that for the rest of their lives. Getting raped by a woman specifically isn't something anyone talks about and some say "It doesn't count". The fear of seeing the woman and being attacked by her in real life was haunting and I had never felt that way before and in the grand scheme of things that fear was nothing compared to what people in real sexual assault cases have felt.

Which leads to the big questions; when a woman rapes another human being (I'm not limiting this to a woman raping a man because there are in fact some cases when a woman rapes another woman)why is that not taken seriously? The ideology behind the phrase "It doesn't count" is nonsense. There are people on this earth that don't report that they have been sexually assaulted and we are stressing about Donald Trump and gender neutral bathrooms. Food for thought.
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it" - Charles R. Swindoll