The Five Stages of Victim-Blaming. Modelled by Salil Tripathi in my DMs, responding to students of late Kathak guru Briju Maharaj going public on his sexual violence.
Stage 1: Deny
Stage 1: Deny
Stage 2: Disbelieve
Stage 3: Discredit
Stage 4: Double down
Stage 5: Displace emotions you can't bear to feel towards the perpetrator (anger, disgust) onto his victims
Stage 5: Displace emotions you can't bear to feel towards the perpetrator (anger, disgust) onto his victims
Bonus stage: Try to repair your self-image as one of the good guys with friend request to the woman who's just unfriended you
A thread of victims and witnesses sharing their accounts of sexual harassment, assault, and rape by #BirjuMaharaj. Thank you, @JhaarJhankaar, for undertaking the painful labour of compiling this. All the trigger warnings.
https://twitter.com/JhaarJhankaar/status/1485454408800522246?s=20
A very important thread by @NWM_India on the growing trend of powerful men using the courts to gag both women who accuse them of sexual violence and media that report the allegations.
https://twitter.com/NWM_India/status/1485208701023961091?s=20
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