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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her accusation wasn’t vague or flimsy at all, it’s absolutely in line with what experts in the field say people recall.[/quote]

So much of this seems out of line with how victims behave. Initially tweeting her praise of her attacker? Editing her year-old blog to change her old story to align with her new story? Claiming she filed a report and then, only after Biden called her bluff, changing the nature and content of what she said she reported?

I was attacked 25 years ago and it never occurred to me to do any of these things. My attacker was pretty well-known in my field and I listened to people praise him. I've been silent, so in that respect I'm similar to Tara. But unlike her, I never praised my attacker. I never blogged about him and then edited my blog to put my own actions in a better light. I never made claims about my own response and actions that I later had to amend when somebody threatened to investigate me. When you're in the right, there's absolutely no need to defend or alter your account of what you did. It's really easy to stick to your story. The truth is bad enough, there's no need for all this drama.
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Not when the person has power and prestige. Look at Weinstein cases. Some of them continued to see him even after being assaulted. They spoke positively about him and stayed connected out of fear of losing their careers if they didn't. Many of them said one thing back then and then another thing when they felt safe to speak out.[/quote]

This, exactly.  No one person can say a trauma victim "should" behave in one particular way.  Isn't that what we've been told, over and over?  By the same people now trying to discredit Reade?   :roll: [/quote]

Whooosh. 3, or maybe 4, people have pointed out that Weinstein's victims needed jobs from him. Tara left quickly to join her husband in the midwest, so she had nothing to lose.[/quote]

There is no proof that every Weinstein victim acted exactly as they did only because they needed jobs. No one knows what was really going on for Tara. People are making some real rigid, concrete conclusions here - a lot of cognitive distortions at play. No one here can say with authority what any victim was or wasn't thinking or why they acted as they did. [/quote]

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