I can’t believe a woman gubernatorial candidate who was raped as a child by her stepfather and whose mother lost custody of her minor children as a result has to respond to an attack ad calling her a liar. It is, as far as the literature I know an actual unprecedented low in modern politics.

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There is much research on the gendered binds women leaders face around authority and likability and much studied on sexual violence and believability, but having to respond to something like this during a campaign is, as far as I know, new territory.

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It’s sick. And I know everyone has already said that but it’s really really really sick. No victim, not even a child the law found it necessary to step in to protect in amongst the most harsh legal ways possible is deserving of compassion to these people.

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Beyond what we have all been screaming about rape culture and the domination of women and children being a feature and not a bug, I also think everyone should be paying very close attention to how the lives and biographies of people who have faced extreme adversity are increasingly picked apart.

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They tested all this recently by telling you that trans people aren’t real, but before this they told you Black women were unrapable, and that the land they colonized was empty. I promise this is all part of the same story of erasure and domination.

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