Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.
We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behav… - Anna C Salter
We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behav…
- Anna C Salter
Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more ef… - Anna C Salter
Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more ef…
In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught.… - Anna C Salter
In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught.…
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other. - Anna C Salter
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet. - Anna C Salter
narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.
Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body. - Anna C Salter
Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body.
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus i… - Anna C Salter
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus i…
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