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CTyankee

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14. As a victim myself, I can tell you why women often don't report it.

Reply to Novembrist (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 10:37 AM

Oct 2018

It's because women don't think they will be believed. My attacker was a fellow student my sophomore year in college. I thought he was a friend, altho not a close friend. When he came to my door he said he just needed to "talk." I thought he might be in some emotional pain so I let him in.That in itself was enough beck in those days to cast doubt on your assertion.

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