192. Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain
We Can Do Hard Things
The Just World Ideology and How It Prevents Victims from Blaming Themselves
Experiencing sexism and harassment is not the victim's fault and blaming them is a defense mechanism to avoid the devastating idea that bad things can happen to good people. Victim blaming is a result of the just world ideology - the belief that if we do everything right, nothing bad should happen to us. Blaming the victim instead of acknowledging the abuser's fault is common in a male-dominated, sexist industry and can lead someone to become more of a feminist. It's scary to believe that you're not in control of whether something awful can happen to you, which is why people would rather find a way to blame the victims for what happened to them.
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