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5 ways we are encouraged to blame women and girls for being raped and abused

5 ways we are encouraged to blame women and girls for being raped and abused | Box of delight | Scoop.it

Content warning: This article discusses sexual violence against women and girls and the ways they are blamed for being victims of male violence

 

Having spent 10 years working with women and girls subjected to sexual and domestic violence of all kinds, I have never had a case or a caseload in which the woman or girl was not being blamed for what someone else (usually a man) was doing to her. Sometimes she is blamed by her family, sometimes by her partner. Sometimes she is blamed by police or by social workers. Sometimes it’s the mental health team blaming her.

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The national conversation on domestic abuse is ignoring the most vulnerable victims| Zerlina Maxwell

The national conversation on domestic abuse is ignoring the most vulnerable victims| Zerlina Maxwell | Box of delight | Scoop.it

Abuse is a learned behavior that often starts in teenage years.

 

The first time Shenna’s partner hit her, it began the way many domestic violence cases do: with a lovers’ quarrel. But this argument was different. This time, it escalated and turned violent: “He slapped me and slammed me on the bed. He duct taped my mouth, my eyes, my arms, and my legs. I thought I was gonna die. I thought he was going to kill me.”

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