Everything We Think We Know About How Victims Should Behave Is Wrong
Why is the cultural narrative so far from the truth?
A few days ago I was having an exchange with Eric Leroy around a variety of topics related to women and their pervasive traumatic experiences in our society. Eric asked me why a woman would wait years or even decades to come forward about an attack. What followed was a detailed response which he recommended that I publish as a separate essay. This is what I wrote. It gives a thorough picture of just how wrong most of the cultural narratives are around what it’s like to be a victim/survivor.
I’ll not delve in the Kavanaugh thing directly because there are too many political elements that do further complicate it, but there are many, many reasons why women don’t come forward immediately. They aren’t always intuitive to someone looking in from the “outside” but do have a lot of science and logic behind them when you actually understand the elements in play.
“A door opens and a police officer is suddenly staring at the wrong end of a…
