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"PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder – has been cited, including by Platner, as a justification for his post-military conduct. On the one hand, while it may explain it, it doesn't justify that behavior in a candidate for senate. On the other, another Marine who served in Iraq, David J. Morris, who wrote a powerful book, The Evil Hours, about PTSD, wrote me some years ago, 'The science on the subject is pretty clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat. Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psychologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural narratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow heroic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.' A significant percentage of American women are survivors of male violence, including intimate partner violence and rape, yet I rarely hear PTSD invoked to justify or excuse their – our – behavior, and I've never heard it invoked to justify violence by women."

Rebecca Solnit in Pod Save Patriarchy (Or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)

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