Katie Molho’s Reviews > Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World > Status Update

“Time and again we were asked to rip open our wounds for the lustful states of the crowd; we were asked to recount and relive our experience of abuse, but not to interpret what happened to us.”

Had to do a bit more on GamerGate: “Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign motivated by a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture.It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015. Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry” (wiki)

“But the reporting that was doing had an unfortunate side effect: reinforcing a sense that a women must be percent defined by how she’s been hurt…”

“Someone, the failure to go directly to the police, completely understandable in many circumstances, is used to discount the stories of multiple victims.”

“The English word gossip, with its negative connotations, is often used in an attempt to undermine women who seek to share information about dangerous men.”

“This disruption is what makes sexual assault so vivid in the minds of victims: the rupture between the world we had imagined it before and the world that is reveled to be by the assault”

“The consequences for a woman who speaks out about the sexual violence she had suffered are often much greater than the consequences for the man who inflicted the violence”