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@InahEvans, since you’re determined to sit on the fence and you have the time to write a thread, here’s a reading list for you.
[A] http://nine.cnnphilippines.com/life/culture/2018/03/13/responding-to-sexual-assault.html
a. Why did @MatteoGenota and @justinvawter open up to social media?
1/ https://twitter.com/inahevans/status/1247777689148112897
@InahEvans, since you’re determined to sit on the fence and you have the time to write a thread, here’s a reading list for you.
[A] http://nine.cnnphilippines.com/life/culture/2018/03/13/responding-to-sexual-assault.html
a. Why did @MatteoGenota and @justinvawter open up to social media?
1/ https://twitter.com/inahevans/status/1247777689148112897
“Opening up in the age of social media is particularly powerful because survivors can form a community around their shared trauma.”
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“Being able to establish that small but SAFE PLACE for us to talk about our shared experience with someone who understands and listens WITHOUT JUDGEMENT … that is incredibly affirming.”
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You reduced confessions from @Jasfher ‘s thread, @MatteoGenota, @justinvawter, @mark_javillonar, et al to Bullying. Also, this is not simply a case that you can walk away from by taking a taxi.
Read more related literature about rape and sexual assault.
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Read more related literature about rape and sexual assault.
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b. It’s harmful to tell someone HOW THEY SHOULD FEEL.
The confessions you’re telling (item 1 in your previous tweets) should not invalidate the confessions of these people who already stood up and decided this has to end.
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The confessions you’re telling (item 1 in your previous tweets) should not invalidate the confessions of these people who already stood up and decided this has to end.
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[B] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford.html
c. “A LONG DELAY IN REPORTING or a foggy recall of events, are the VERY HALLMARKS of sexual assault.”
Need to say more when experts are already calling it?
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c. “A LONG DELAY IN REPORTING or a foggy recall of events, are the VERY HALLMARKS of sexual assault.”
Need to say more when experts are already calling it?
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d. Vast majority of assaults occur between people who know one another.
Pierre puts the victims in a situation like parties, instameets, Early Night clubbing, where everyone knows each other so no one will suspect.
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Pierre puts the victims in a situation like parties, instameets, Early Night clubbing, where everyone knows each other so no one will suspect.
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“Ah maybe because that new guy is Pierre’s friend* too, I doubt he’ll take advantage again”.
*sometimes as “awra”
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*sometimes as “awra”
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MORE READINGS
[C] https://www.breakthecycle.org/blog/reporting-sexual-assault-police
e. “Sexual assault takes an enormous physical and emotional toll on a survivor.” on why a survivor may not immediately report the crime.
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[C] https://www.breakthecycle.org/blog/reporting-sexual-assault-police
e. “Sexual assault takes an enormous physical and emotional toll on a survivor.” on why a survivor may not immediately report the crime.
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[D] https://time.com/2905637/campus-rape-assault-prosecution/
f. Survivors may feel embarrassed that the assault happened in the first place.
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f. Survivors may feel embarrassed that the assault happened in the first place.
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Other points:
(i) Again, was he clinically diagnosed before? Or isn’t this just another excuse to control you and his friends?
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(i) Again, was he clinically diagnosed before? Or isn’t this just another excuse to control you and his friends?
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(ii) Why is it easy for you to charge us that we’re eager to DESTROY him? And for you to utter words “he might be SAVED, he might change”?
This is not a tale to be romanticized with redemption arcs. Don’t be a champion of drugs and rape.
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This is not a tale to be romanticized with redemption arcs. Don’t be a champion of drugs and rape.
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