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In reply to the discussion: Here's a list of people Tara Reade has accused of assault or harassment. [View all]Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)I have encountered many rape survivors who are repeatedly raped or abused. (I had decided not to get into the discussion about whether multiple accusations was linked to credibility)
But I don't find a half-dozen accusations (or whatever the number is) unusual at all. I'm not sure I'd say it was more freqent than not among the rape survivors I have worked with, but I was never surprised when I was sitting with a survivor in the hosptal (or talking with her later) to find that this was not her first experience with rape or sexual abuse.
Bullies in any group (human or animal) have a very good sense of who will make a good/compliant victim (i.e. not scream too loudly, not report, be able to be manipulated into believeing it was their fault). And often (not always) people who have been bullied (or sexually abused) learn their position in the pecking order, which helps perpetuate the cycle. I successfully broke out of being targeted by bullies - it was a conscous and deliberate effort to both physically distance myself and change my attitude so I didn't care about what the bullies thought. But it's not always easy or possible. But that's part of why women who grew up in abusive homes often marry abusive men, or women who have one abusive spouse may well have a second. Bullies are good at picking victims - and at nurturing the characteristics that make their targets "good" from the perspective of perpetuating the dynamic.
But that's a long shot from suggesting that an irresistable perfume triggers uncontrollable sexual urges.