Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readSep 2, 2023

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There's a massive tendency for women to call out all the ways that they are victims, because they are victims in massive ways every single day from young childhood on. Failing to understand that is a wholly inappropriate blaming of the victims. Yes, people need to take responsibility for themselves when that is appropriate but the story she was referencing was about little girls selling cookies and the absolutely disgusting ways that older white men used the age and power discrepancy to make them uncomfortable - something that believe you me, pretty much every woman has experience with.

85% of American women have been sexually harassed beginning in childhood - for many of them starting at age 10 or even earlier. And that is just the beginning. That is NOT their fault. There is nothing they could have done to deserve that. If you have even the slightest bit of respect for women, you need to stop with this narrative that women are somehow making it up or inviting violence upon themselves. It's incredibly inappropriate and misogynistic.

Men’s violence against women is a pervasive social phenomenon with deep roots in existing personal, social, and institutional arrangements. In order for people to understand and ultimately work together to prevent it, it is first necessary for them to engage in a great deal of personal and collective introspection. This introspection can be especially threatening to men, because as perpetrators and bystanders, they are responsible for the bulk of the problem.

Katz, Jackson. The Macho Paradox (p. 24). Sourcebooks. Kindle Edition.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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