womanfish
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Again I’m not picking a side on this in terms of Reade because I don’t see enough information to have my heart settled one way or another, but flat out I find this post to be disgusting.
This goes against everything regarding listening to and believing a victim.
This is an exceptional circumstance given the nature and reasonable doubt associated with her case and with the potential that she has ulterior motives.
That does not change a thing though. This post you’ve provided gross against everything. I don’t even feel I can line by line address the elements of this. You think a 1993 senate office was listening to an accuser. You should be ashamed for that statement, and every subsequent statement where you dare consider questioning the notion of why a theoretical victim does not behave in a way that you deem to be logical, simply because it supports your argument in this very moment. It’s disgusting, it’s like you’ve learned nothing and not listened to any story any victim has told.
And shit, I’m not even saying this particular woman is truthful or not. I refuse to draw a conclusion on such a controversial topic with such iffy and unclear facts. But damn, read your post over again.
What the actual fuck?!
Maybe you don't read much at all, cause as I've said a couple times recently, I am myself a victim of sexual assault. An actual victim. And I can guarantee you that I have heard the most heartbreaking detail and pain from dozens of other survivors, including my wife's.
I have seen lives shattered, lives forever scarred and ability to connect and have loving relationships lost as I have been to years of solo and group therapy.
But please tell me how I don't know anything or ever listened to a victim's story.
You know why I have been vocal about this? Because real victims are harmed by those that falsely report, whatever their motivations.
I ask you to read my post again. I never said that she would be definitely listened to by the Senate Office. But other Congresspeople and Senators have had complaints lodged against them and have faced consequences, at least professionally. It was on option for her. Which she says she took. But so far no complaint found, she didn't keep a copy, and now is saying she didn't use the words sexual harrassment. Which means she definitely didn't use the words sexual assault.
Would the police have done anything? Possibly. Possibly not. If the story were true and it was considered rape, then they most likely would have at least had to open a case.
How is giving newspaper interviews and podcast interviews not having her voice heard?
How is me pointing out a few avenues she could have taken, even if she didn't get results "disgusting?"
As I said, I in NO WAY fault someone for waiting a long time to say anything. It took me 25 years, but I was 5 when my assault happened. I truly had no voice.
And I think you are missing the overall point. I'm not saying that her speaking out at that time wouldn't have ended up with her hitting a brick wall. That is all too common and MeToo has definitely helped, but is still prevalent.
The point is that (It is looking very likely now) that these reports weren't made and police weren't notified and press wasn't spoken to because it never happened. Like I've said before, I can certainly see her feeling uncomfortable and having her shoulders touched could absolutely be true. But seeing her actions and more and more facts pouring out. Her claim of sexual assault is seeming more and more likely to be false.
And that doesn't just make me sad. It pisses me the hell off. It hurts every person who comes forward after this, or who now might NOT come forward at all. It hurts MeToo.
THAT is disgusting.
And guess who it helps. Trump.
Now, well, who knows, maybe those 24 women who have accused him are lying too. You know he will use that. And those 24 women who spoke out, most before MeToo, will be seen as liars.
THAT is disgusting.
If you really haven't seen enough information, I would urge you to read the article that Headache just posted. It has a lot of the info from some that I posted, but with added information and laid out in better sequence.
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