And that is saying something.
I don’t think it is the same as these:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit/
I looked up the Epstein survivors recently trying to parse some of my own behaviours out of a hunch I have from personal experience as well as from cursory inspections of analyses by experts who actually care the real way about women’s issues.
It is that women (including me) “act out” more (excessive swearing, alcohol or substance overuse, dysfunctionality, anger and self destructive behaviour) in response to sexual harassment, assault, stalking etc especially when that is coupled (as I have seen) with systems which switch between turning a blind eye or worse retaliating with vile moral policing, malicious scrutiny and attacks on one’s character, sanity or credibility masked as “concern about mental wellness”. The worst is justification of obviously predatory monitoring as “concern about self harm”.
It is so perverse and counter-intuitive. How can policies or strategies that are likelier to make women more depressed, feel more degraded be portrayed and sold as harm prevention? I am pretty sure that is not how experts who truly help women behave.
Those are usually decent people who are gentler and let women come to them more non-intrusively. Unlike the idiots who assume guilt in the screwed over party, actual experts tend to get that it is common for women to be ambivalent a lot and vacillate between wanting to move on and forget about it versus pushback knowing as one does that odds are it is no use.
There is this totally sleazy and malicious systemic rear covering gambit where you are doubly screwed over when abusive practices are used as an excuse to promote/force a cottage industry of surveillance, “testing” etc.
The most insulting part is the canned statements after, by systems like those once the gig is up.
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