@neverfadingwood No doubt, both women and men who have been rapped tend to get the short end of the stick, both in different ways. But I find it interesting how it is always the victim of rape, regardless of sex, that are given a hard time. Like something about being the victim of rape causes people to loose respect for you or something.

@freemo @neverfadingwood It looks like she brought the issue up in therapy sessions in 2012. She didn't come forward to anyone in public, though. So I don't think this was a situation of allegations being ignored in 2012 only to come to light again now, so much as these documents proving she's talked about this *before* Kavanaugh's senate hearings.

That is an important piece of the puzzle that adds a certain amount of trust to her statements as a victim, at least for me. Telling a therapist about these issues is an extremely different forum- it doesn't reflect on Kavanaugh at all- it means she was trying to work through it 30 years later.

Unfortunately something that happened 36 years ago is going to be a difficult thing to prove in a way that law enforcement will be satisfied with.

That being said, yeah. There is most def a victim blaming culture for people who survive rape or sexual assault. I don't, personally, understand why anyone would blame the victim of a crime for the crime.