Apr 1, 2021
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...in the last handful of months, we’ve borne witness to a whole new round of stories sharing the same familiar theme. MeToo notwithstanding, the phenomenon of demonizing the woman continues to play out in the lives of women and girls who dare to speak the truth about their lives.
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It’s not simply about how our culture continues to shame, dismiss, humiliate, devalue, and demonize women. It’s the injury—sometimes overt counterattack, often gaslighting—that an abused woman is virtually certain to endure when she breaks her silence to tell what happened to her. Call it a one-two punch.
