Is There a Right Way?

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A woman will always be criticised for the way she speaks up against her perpetrator. When she does find the courage to speak up six months later, or even 30 years later, then she's being selfish. With that very act of claiming victim status, a woman is asserting her own interests. And women just aren't supposed to do that. Here's kate man again. She effectively becomes the villain, and he effectively becomes the victim of his on crime. That claim just overwhelms and overshadows everything, including literal, tangible evidence that he is not a good guy. We see this again and again. He's a good guy, people say, bret cavanagh, lou

Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved ones’ responses that she went back to them years later to record conversations about it all. In this episode: Janey’s story, and philosopher Kate Manne, who coined the term “himpathy” in her 2017 book, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.” With co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee. Part of our summer mini-season of rebroadcasts.

To hear more of Janey Williams’ story and the conversations she had with friends, check out her podcast, "This Happened", available on most podcast apps and at thishappenedpodcast.com.