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Issues have pros and cons, and when you're fighting for justice it may be important to divide the world into good and bad, victim and victimizer.
"However, we say it once again: There is no such thing as a good or bad victim.
When you work in rape litigation you quickly learn that in the public imagination there is a difference between a "good victim" and a "bad victim".
Decades of administering to adulterers and their anguished spouses have convinced her that we need "a more nuanced and less judgmental conversation about infidelity," one that acknowledges that "the intricacies of love and desire don't yield to simple categorizations of good and bad, victim and culprit".
A bad victim is someone your legal audience would rather shame as having "asked for it" because of the way they were dressed, their alcohol consumption or, in some parts of the world, simply because they were in a car park with a man who wasn't their husband.
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The first slogan before the creation of M.S.F. was 'There are no good and bad victims.' For them, bad victims exist".
"You start making distinctions between good victims and bad victims and deserving victims and non-deserving victims.
The hierarchy of "good" victims and "bad" victims, the myth that women frequently and recreationally lie about rape, and the notion that sex workers – such as, for instance, James Deen's present accusers – can't be sexually violated.
Some are only accidentally bad — victims of fate, not its agents.
The mindset that leads to discriminating between "good" and "bad" victims is the same mindset that leads to judging girls as "good" or "bad".
In one, a classic "bad rape victim" — she lies, she cheats, she dresses trashily — is redeemed because she's a good mom.
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