The unimaginable costs of sexual assault

[phands]

Powerful stuff...

But now, after Ford’s testimony in front of the Senate judiciary committee, I myself am looking for a safe “second exit” - surprisingly, from research on sexual assault that has been my focus for so long. Has my work kept some healing at bay, or has it healed more than I know? Have I incurred costs I cannot name? Each new public or private disclosure is more wrenching for me than the previous. I turn the newspaper over, the radio off. I am nauseated, no longer in the abstract realm of theory, data and statistical inference.


I have worked for nearly 30 years on naming and identifying harms to women. I’m not sure what direction I will take next. If my work has, in some way, even indirectly, contributed to the social change we are now awash in, I feel an incredible sense of accomplishment. If just one woman is spared from blame for just being in her home, for inadequately locking a faulty glass door or for creatively saving her life, I have great return on my investment.


We will never be able to estimate the true cost of sexual assault. The ways in which women – even those who flourish – arrange their lives after an assault are impossible to imagine. Two front doors – who could have imagined? We can’t measure what we can’t imagine. But we can begin to name.

https://theconversation.com/the-unimaginable-costs-of-sexual-assault-104769

 

[Derec]

It's BS from the first sentence. That "second exit" thing was debunked. It had nothing to do with the alleged attempted attack.

 

[Angry Floof]

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[Jolly_Penguin]

It's BS from the first sentence. That "second exit" thing was debunked. It had nothing to do with the alleged attempted attack.

Where was it debunked. What was it to begin with?

We will never be able to estimate the true cost of sexual assault.

Partly because we will never get unbiased research on it that doesn't seek to either exaggerate or downplay it. It is too politicized for that.

 

[Derec]

It's BS from the first sentence. That "second exit" thing was debunked. It had nothing to do with the alleged attempted attack.

Where was it debunked. What was it to begin with?

The door was installed to allow part of the house to be rented to tenants. Not to allow an escape route for Blasey-Ford.