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John WM Thompson
Jan. 6, 2025, morning

The grammar in that third para is abominable. Here it is rephrased: “ I’d read a lot of Charlotte Shane and Vanessa Veselka when I lighted on the Aviv piece. They wrote extremely contested (but imo pretty persuasive) critiques of how victims of sexual violence are expected to adopt specific affects and presentations, in order to be supported constructively by others. Deviation from the archetypes gets you pathologized as delusional / in denial, or worse, a traitor and bad influence of one kind or another.

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