How Very Bad Men Get Away With Rape – Jessica Valenti – Medium
“Consider the disproportionate number of men who are police officers, judges, magazine editors, movie directors, college administrators, and bosses. The people who shape how we think about gender and power and who decide how accusations are handled are far more likely to be men — who we know are more likely to empathize with male abusers than female victims. […]
“Even more dangerous, though, is the message that abusers receive: that they will be protected. That they can do what they like because no one will believe their victims anyway. As feminist writer Thomas Millar put it nearly a decade ago, ‘It takes one rapist to commit a rape, but it takes a village to create an environment where it happens over and over.'”
It can be easy to forget that sexual assault is a crime committed by a very small percentage of the male population. You might think otherwise, considering how many women have come forward in the…
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