For some American moms, there’s something morally righteous about committing to motherhood at the expense of their bodies. It’s like giving yourself over to a higher cause.
“In reality, the vast majority of Title IX investigations have always ended in favor of the accused.”
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
“Most schools fulfill this legal obligation by providing services that won’t involve a perpetrator, such as academic accommodations or healing resources. At Western University, victim advocates would broker agreements between survivors and their professors to get extensions on assignments or excused absences. They would also help survivors submit paperwork to receive refunds for classes they dropped or failed due to the strains of their traumatic symptoms. To improve survivors’ mental health, the Counseling Center hosted group therapy for sexual assault survivors and offered one-on-one counseling at a cheaper rate than the insurance co-pay at most private practices. Advocates also had a small fund available to cover survivors’ trauma-related expenses. Overwhelmingly, survivors who received these resources benefited from them. Some called them life-changing. However, few survivors felt comfortable actually using them. Especially more than once.”
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
“The notion of intrinsic motivation or self-generated drive is held as the ideal, but ADHD is characterized by motivation difficulties. There is nothing wrong with extrinsic motivation, using accountability to others and rewards to help you get engaged in a task, which you can think of as outsourcing accountability (which is not the same as outsourcing responsibility).”
― The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out
― The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out
“To Camilla, the Nassar case made clear that, if you were the first person coming forward, the best anyone could hope for was that your betrayal might offer another survivor validation in the future.”
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
“Ultimately, victim advocates were in a difficult position. They understood the betrayals of the Title IX system better than any other administrator on campus, but they lacked the power to change anything. Instead, they were witnesses to the same predictable horrors, tasked with performing a delicate balancing act: how do you warn a survivor about a system designed to betray them without discouraging them from using it?”
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
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