.GHLawFirm on 'the ways we continue to doubt victims who have suffered 'disorganizing consequences,' and why we still have so far to go.'
reported in 2018 that women who were sexually abused did not come forward for on average 20 years.
What sexual abuse victims endure is like an emotional tornado or a hurricane that robs many of the clarity needed to take specific societally-expected action. They experience “the disorganizing consequences of trauma.” Dozens of women have reported that they continued interacting with Weinstein, even after being assaulted or raped, because they refused to abandon their dreams of acting or screen writing. Many feared retaliation if they didn’t agree to his demands to meet with him, which he communicated through compulsive texts, calls and emails.
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