Tagged: Sexual Violence

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Sympathy for the Rapist

As soon as people learned that my rapist was a woman, they crawled out from under rocks to tell me that I “owed” my rapist compassion because she “must’ve been abused herself”. They are...

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Calling it Rape is Progress

When I started doing advocacy work on female predators back in 2008, it was SOOOOOOOOOOOO RARE to see a woman’s sexual violence crimes described as rape in the media…or anywhere. Trained and credentialed victim...

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Toxic Advocacy: Whataboutisms

Advocacy Pro-Tip: When confronted with someone’s horrible, shitty, no-good, very bad, utterly indefensible, repugnant, smelly, abusive, garbage behavior, responding with “what about so-and-so who is worse…” you are engaging in de facto apologism. If...