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“If a woman is rattled by reliving the nightmare in court, if a woman’s experience of rape is not the way the court likes it to be, then … My voice catches slightly.... We conclude that she is lying, that she must be disbelieved. How can the victim ever win? Why do we believe consent exists until it is taken away to begin with? Are women such commodities? And then, when the woman does not consent, we are somehow not believing her? Despite everything she does and says? Could we not start with asking of the accused, ‘What did he do to determine consent existed in the first place?’ Could we not ask him to speak to it? To let the jury see what they might disbelieve in his story?”
― Suzie Miller, Prima Facie