Victim blaming
The Why Factor
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Violence Against Women
mitu sano says victim blaming may originate from long and deeply held attitudes toward sexuality. But another part of the problem is the language we use to describe these incidents. We so often use passive language to talk about victimization, she says. Even the term violence against women is problematic because it's passivelanguage. It's something bad that happened to women, but nobody, nobody did it to em. I they're just experiencing it.
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