Has anyone noticed the difference in outrage between a white male hockey player being sexually assaulted and any woman of any ethnicity being sexually assaulted? Why is it deemed so much worse? Serious question. #MeToo 1/7
Why is it no one is asking why it took 11 years for this to come out? If a woman reports a sexual assault several years after the fact, everyone questions the legitimacy of her claim. "Why did she wait so long? Why is she coming forward now?" 2/7
What the vodeo coach did was reprehensible, I am not saying it isn't. But how many sexual assault cases can you think of where there was such a wide net cast for anyone who even knew about it, where the victim was a woman? 3/7
I haven't seen anyone asking or answering these questions & I think it's important to examine the different levels of severity our society applies to sexual assault. Apparently we view it as much worse if the victim is male. Yes, the assailant was in a position of authority. 4/7
But many female victims of sexual assault are assaulted by men in positions of authority. Bosses, teachers, coaches, doctors, police, older relatives, older family friends, older neighbours... So that is not really a significant differentiating factor. 5/7
Yet, the media is going crazy over this. Social media is going crazy over this. And, guess what? Hardly any one is questioning his story. Those who doubted the accusations of female victims in other high profile cases have no problems with Beach's account. 6/7
Why is that? I am not saying I disbelieve him. I am asking why it is so hard for so many people to believe women reporting what happened to them. Especially when it seems so easy for them to believe a man. I think this is an important conversation for our society to have. 7/7
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