Here, we see a commonly repeated argument: that our friends or heroes aren't the kind of men
we believe abuse women, and so therefore the victim must be lying.
Not exact matches
When it's so common to write off the hatred and
abuse of
women as «locker room banter,» of course many
women believe that lie, too — that boys are just being boys, that men don't really mean what they say.
«Just to be clear... Just because a
woman does a sexy photoshoot or wears a sexy outfit does not give a man the right to shame her or not
believe her when she comes forward about sexual
abuse.
«Just because a
woman does a sexy photoshoot or wears a sexy outfit does not give a man the right to shame her or not
believe her when she comes forward about sexual
abuse.
The petition, created by an anonymous person on Tuesday, reads: «If you
believe The Weinstein Company should completely dissolve after 30 years of sexual
abuse against innocent
women please join me in signing this petition to honor the victims and their bravery.»
If we could just do a quick change of the world and flipped it around, I
believe women would be
abusing.
Ossama you
believe a
woman can survive physical
abuse?
Apparently... no, obviously... it's not enough just to
believe a
woman's story about her experiences of harassment,
abuse, or assault.
As we can read through all the comments and related posts, many
women have experienced and are experiencing the very same thing:
abuse, silencing and not being
believed.
In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used,
abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always
believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a
woman in marriage.
As long as most
women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly
abused women.
Or do you also
believe that once the battered wife is finally free of her abuser, she should remain in silence, allowing other unsuspecting
women to fall into the same life of
abuse at the hands of the attacker?
The god of the bible is the least likely to exist due to how wretched it is - it allows for slavery; rape; oppression of
women / LGBT; child
abuse; murder... not such a loving god you
believe in!!
Because his wife was
abused in the past, he
believes that the majority of
women were
abused in the past.
i tend to agree that ministries who
believe that
women should not teach men should be left alone (because what's the point unless to point out specific
abuse?)
We
believe that supporting
women to better themselves and their families while their children are young can decrease the cycles of homelessness, poverty,
abuse, and neglect.
Voters have only a slightly less favorable opinion of Bill Clinton, but most
believe the
women who have accused the former president of sexually
abusing them, according to the latest Rasmussen poll.
One of the team's studies tested four groups of
women: those who had been sexually
abused and always remembered, those who
believed they had been sexually
abused but had no memory of it, those who had recovered memories of sexual
abuse, and a control group who were certain they had never been
abused.
Actually, I was merely falling prey to the social prejudice that a
woman isn't
believed when she's
abused — instead, she's blamed.
I create a safe space for my clients where they can feel safe exploring sexual experiences — sexual harassment and
abuse but also trauma from birth injuries, IUDs, STDs and many other past experiences — and there are a few things that I really do wish
women would stop
believing about sex.
She
believed that the unprocessed trauma experienced by many
women — as the result of individually experienced acts of
abuse and violence, and as the result of cultural oppression — could manifest itself in physical symptoms, especially those relating specifically to female biology.
I am a one
woman man, I don't
believe in cheating,
abusing, or not accepting someone for who they are.
A: IMBRA set out necessary regulations that do aim to protect
women from
abuse, and I
believe the regulations are keeping people safe.
Aaliyah Hadid Pictures And Movies at Freeones courtesy of Aaliyah Hadid her official site This morning, BuzzFeed published a story about two young
women whose parents
believe they are being
abused and manipulated in a cultlike relationship with R.
Reflecting on the film's release as the Me Too and Time's Up movements dominate debate in Hollywood and the wider world, she said: «It's a strange thing, the themes this film touch on, the themes that we wanted to focus on and discuss and let an audience discuss during the process of seeing the film have to do with class - ism and
abuse towards
women and if they are
believed when they come forward.
When
women are
abused on screen — and how that shapes opinions about whose stories we
believe in real life
I
believe we need a serious discussion about
women's treatment in the workplace and the culture that allows people like Mr Weinstein to so abhorrently
abuse their power.
Elder
abuse and violence against
women aren't separate issues, and we
believe that they must not be separate conversations.
That is, policies for both men and
women, of all ages, must include pregnancy, counseling for drug
abuse, and other concerns regardless of whether or not a person
believes he / she needs such coverage.
Many emotionally
abused men and
women believe that they are just crazy, insecure, imagining things or making mountains out of molehills.
Fact: «The sheer prevalence of the problem of violence and the dynamics surrounding it make it clear any assumptions about equal partnership in these cases are out of the question... the majority of
women never report the assaults or in fact ever tell anyone about it (Johnson, 1996) and thus may not be
believed if the first time the issue is raised is at the point of separation... may avoid going to court out of fear of retaliation, a fear which is not unfounded given the data on the escalation of violence at separation... agree to whatever the husband wants in an attempt to pacify him... as an exchange for custody... may appear unstable or emotional while their batterers are perceived as confident, rational and economically secure (Rosnes, 1997)... all the research flies in the face of what Rosnes argues is presently happening in the courts:»... judges assume that wife
abuse is not necessarily damaging to a child, and that being violent does not necessarily affect a father's parenting ability....
From the abstract: «Men
believed abuse reports less than did
women, and people who had not experienced trauma were less likely to
believe trauma reports.
Many
women believed that men who were not the fathers of their children posed a risk of
abuse, both physical and sexual.