Himpathy: Rebroadcast
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What's the Best Way to Handle a Woman's Assault?
We tend to go easy on men when they punish women for not playing by the patriarchal rules. So let's bring this back to the concept of sympathy. When a woman does what janie did and calls out a man, she was being assertive. That was a plea from a woman to put her fand her pain at the centre of the story. And that is not something that women are supposed to do, not in a patriarchal system.
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