Kellyanne Conway: 'I'm a victim of sexual assault' (Bush, women, issues)
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After working with victims of sexual assault, female and male, for 30 years, I learned a lot.
There is almost always significant trauma, sometimes sooner, sometimes way later. It comes out somewhere in painful ways. And, it isn't always apparent, at the outset, that the depression or other difficulty coping is rooted in sexual assault. It is sometimes a long process to disclosure and healing.
People can internalize more, externalize more or have behaviors symptomatic of both.
Some people are stronger and some weaker. Some are fight. Some are flight. People can't and don't react the same in how they remember/recall or cope.
Some are believed and advocated for, but many are not and are revictimized. I have seen where even very young victims were blamed to protect their abuser.
Sometimes, a significant life experience or trigger brings a level of the trauma back to the surface when it has been compartmentalized away. I wonder if this may have happened to Kellyanne who seems to be a compartmentalizer.
About reporting right away. People who haven't been strongly traumatized, sexually or otherwise, don't realize the impact and strength of those factors above. One client said to me, "Just as I didn't have any control over when or how he assaulted me, I also, for a very long time, didn't feel I had any more control over when or how or if I could recall or disclose what happened."
She did say quite clearly at the beginning of this that those who have been assaulted deserve to be heard.
It seemed out of character at the time, but there was no mistaking how serious and straightforward she was about it.
I know. I read what she said before I watched it, and even in just words, she comes across in a sincere way that I honestly didn't think she had in her.
Do you not see that there is something kind of sad about a woman who has been assaulted supporting men who dismiss all of the multiple claims against them as lies? I get that she has not named anyone, but that doesn't change the fact that some of the men she's defending have called the women not only mistaken about the identity of their assailants, but outright liars.
Some of those women ARE outright liars, like the kav accusers, and most if not all of the trump accusers
KellyAnne 's job is to lie for the president ,if she was assaulted that is terrible but ....she at the end of the day is a paid liar for the president,I think she is lying.
Why is that interesting? Is Conway going to make things up with no collaborating evidence too?
F.W.I.W., (which isn't much) I definitely believe Kellyanne. There's no way she would admit to being sexually assaulted without being chastised by Americans. Was she really so shortsighted that she couldn't see the amazing hypocrisy in her revelation?
Shrug. If that’s what you call believing people whose politics you like and not believing people whose politics you don’t like.
Doesn’t seem all that sensible to me, frankly.
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