If she really was raped, why didn’t she speak up earlier?
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she → rap → ?
Why did she get drunk?
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she → get → ?
Why was she wearing such a short skirt?
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she → wear → skirt
Why did she walk home by herself?
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she → walk → herself
God, it’s exhausting, isn’t it?
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it → ’ → ?
Every time a story about a woman being raped becomes headline news, the same pattern repeats without fail.
asserted
pattern → rap → fail
People accuse the woman of asking for it.
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People → accuse → it
They question her motives; they scrutinize her looks; they attack her character.
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they → question → character
And without fail, she is punished for speaking up.
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she → punish → fail
It happened to Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh, then a supreme court nominee, of assaulting her when they were both teenagers in the 1980s.
asserted
they → happen → 1980s
Ford and her family reportedly had to flee their home because of threats and harassment.
uncertain
Ford → have → threats
According to her lawyers, her email was hacked and she was impersonated online.
uncertain
she → accord → lawyers
Her entire life was turned upside down.
asserted
life → turn → ?
Meanwhile, Kavanaugh was praised by Donald Trump and now has a lifetime appointment on the supreme court.
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Kavanaugh → praise → court
It happened with E Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her back in 1996.
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who → happen → 1996
Trump said Carroll was not his “type” and “totally lying”.
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Carroll → say → ?
His lawyer asked Carroll why she didn’t scream during the alleged attack and why she didn’t go to the police at the time.
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she → ask → time
Carroll’s life was upended and the Trump administration opened a criminal investigation into her.
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administration → upend → her
Now we’re seeing the cycle repeat with the woman known as Jane Doe in the Cornell gang-rape case.
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cycle → see → case
According to her attorney, Thomas Giuffra, Doe is receiving threats from people who have discovered her identity and is terrified for her safety.
uncertain
who → accord → safety
Doe was even the victim of a swatting episode this week, a form of harassment where someone places a false call to emergency services with the goal of sending armed officers to the victim’s location.
asserted
someone → place → location
Giuffra told CNN that officers pointed weapons at Doe’s family after a fake tip about someone “killing people in the house” on Tuesday evening.
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someone → tell → evening
“If you had a trigger-happy cop, or somebody had done the wrong thing, somebody could have ended up dead,” Giuffra said.
uncertain
Giuffra → have → thing
Nobody ended up dead on that particular occasion, but Doe’s character is systematically being assassinated.
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character → end → occasion
“What attracts women to those parties – late at night, like Jane Doe – to walk alone to a fraternity house and take her chances?” Caitlin Flanagan tut-tutted in the Free Press.
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Flanagan → attract → Press
“What she’s really looking for is a man.
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looking → look → What
And she has no idea how to find a good one.”
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she → have → one
She should have known better than to go to a frat party.
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She → know → party
Silly little girl: she was asking for it.
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she → ask → it
Rightwing commentator Megyn Kelly, who has been vocal about her experience of sexual harassment at Fox News and should really know better, went even further and attacked Doe’s looks.
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who → know → looks
“No one will even consider the possibility that this woman made a decision to get it on with four men total, not seven, and enjoyed it because, I’m just going to be honest, she’s not the most attractive gal,” Kelly said on a recent episode of her podcast.
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Kelly → consider → podcast
“She’s extremely beefy in like her arms and her legs.
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She → ’ → arms
She has a whole video online talking about her cankles.
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She → have → cankles
And she possibly enjoyed being admired.
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she → enjoy → ?
This is how women make these mistakes.”
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women → make → mistakes
It should go without saying that being raped is not a “mistake”.
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raped → go → ?
It should go without saying that a woman should be able to go to a party and have a drink and walk home at night and wear whatever she likes without it being an invitation for men to rape her.
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men → go → her
And yet it seems that women have to keep saying all this over and over again.
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women → seem → this
Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign sign
Bernadette Greene Placentia told the Phoenix New Times that she was attacked in August while walking across a parking lot in the middle of the night to fix a damaged campaign sign.
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she → say → sign
“Speaking publicly about what happened has been incredibly difficult for Bernadette,” a campaign spokesperson said.
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spokesperson → speak → Bernadette
…and 28 more, not listed.
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