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Women Should Scream About Rape
They asked E. Jean Carroll Did you scream? We all need to scream about this
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, Currents, and Ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD
Scream TOO!
Even though Predator Trump committed most of his assault crimes decades ago, women should still be screaming.
At the Trial of the Teflon Felon Moron, defense lawyer, Tacopina asked key witness E. Jean Carroll:
“You never screamed for help?”
Because, as our culture teaches, women are only real victims if the attacker is an oddly articulate monster who makes clear what he is trying to do and she screams like that naked lady in the shower in Psycho.
The victim is supposed to be perfect in every other way, as well. She needs to entirely empty her prefrontal cortex of all fight, flight, or freeze stress hormones and keep an accurate comprehension of every time, date, move, room detail, minty breath, and everything imaginable.
All women should still be screaming, I guess. Why didn’t Christine Blasey Ford scream? Neither did all those #Me Too victims. Maybe Anita Hill should still be screaming after decades, even though it’s just because Clarence Thomas creeps everybody out.