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queer-geordie-nerd · 3 months ago

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If any society as a whole really cared about uplifting and supporting rape survivors as much as we like to pretend we do, or even half as much as we like to make excuses for abusers and rapists, perhaps women wouldn't feel the need to keep the abhorrent crimes perpetrated against them to themselves for years for fear of being re-traumatised by the legal system and the court of public opinion.

#just read an appalling review of mira's book #basically accusing her of making up events to sensationalise her book #and questioning why she never reported or revealed it publically until writing a book published after her death #and why she didn't name the man she described as a 'very well known public figure'#she literally wrote herself that she never reported because she knew the police wouldn't give a shit #and given the way the media and public in croatia tore her to shreds #forcing her into exile from her home #i can hardly imagine she would have found much support in that arena either #the accusation here is all the more egregious for the fact #that she spends a grand total of two paragraphs in a 600 page work discussing this event in her life #and does so in a very straightforward manner and then moves on #reading articles about mira to distract myself possibly wasn’t the best idea #given how exceedingly awful and misogynistic certain areas of the balkan media tend to be about her

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