As yet another victim-blaming headline goes viral, DrJessTaylor outlines the psychology of victim-blaming
focused on the fact that he was a swimmer at Stanford. For instance, the Washington Post headline read: ‘All American swimmer found guilty of sexually assaulting unconscious woman on Stanford Campus.’ The New York Post wrote: ‘Three-time All-American Stanford swimmer found guilty of rape.'
When something bad happens, we tend to look for what they did wrong... it rebalances our understanding of justice. Dr Taylor continues: ‘The other reason is self-preservation, psychologically, because we need to deny our own vulnerability. If women and girls really accepted how common male violence was, the fact that the most dangerous place for a woman to be is in her own home, with her own partner… Women and girls would live in a constant state of terror.
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