I’m just going to use this moment to remind everyone that women don’t benefit from publicity from being public with rape allegations.
There is a marked difference between regular attention and the sort of attention women get when they expose powerful well-liked men. Women don’t build careers off of having been raped. They don’t get financial blow backs, and (as happened with ke$ha) they almost always lose if they sue.
Do you know what well known women want when they publicly expose their powerful well-liked rapists?
1. Freedom from the oppression and psychological trauma of silence.
2. Protecting other women, (and sometimes men and children) from becoming victims like they were.
And often times, this is enough for them to find peace.
What they /get/ on the other hand is generally:
1. A deconstruction of their sexual history and moral character.
2. A barrage of rape threats (ironic, right?) and threats of physical violence.
3. A black mark in the entertainment industry. (“Difficult to work with” “not discrete”)
4. Relationships lost from people who they loved and trusted siding with their rapist. (Who may I remind you, is “well liked”)
5. Called a liar over and over and over by girls who are invested in being attracted to their rapist, fans of their rapist, men who are more invested in their own fear of the threat of false accusation– as if visited upon themselves–to concern themselves with any evidence brought forth by any number of women (Cosby is a good example of this)in this specific case, people screaming “innocent until proven guilty” which would be fine except it happens in cases of undeniable evidence such as video, audio and witness testimony as well as general confessions, and people who think that because someone is “nice” sometimes or charitable they can never be horrifying at others.
An experience which can in some cases almost feel more traumatizing than the actual rape itself.
There is so little to gain and such a massive cost for exposing a well-liked rapist that it’s a surprise that it ever happens.
And while I do not think that it’s the best practice to believe every single thing someone says…
Claiming that a woman would /benefit/ from publicity from doing such a thing is just fundamentally, factually, and historically incorrect.
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