Harvey Weinstein's lawyer Donna Rotunno said in a podcast that she's never been sexually assaulted because she's never put herself in a position to be.
reporter Megan Twohey, co-author of “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” asked Rotunno, “Do you believe every woman who’s been sexually assaulted somehow put herself in that position — whether it was having drinks or agreeing to go to a hotel room?”
What Rotunno’s neglecting to acknowledge with her awful statement is that so many cases of rape and sexual assault aren’t the result of a woman walking down the street and having an attacker jump out of a dark alley. They aren’t the result of a woman going home with a man she barely knows after too many drinks, and even if she did, she still isn’t positioning herself for attack.
Her solution to the problem of rape and sexual assault, of course, is snarky and woman-hating. As Twohey clarifies that Rotunno indeed meant what she said — that women are somehow culpable in their own sexual assaults — she also gets the lawyer to explain what men should be doing to avoid women being sexually assaulted. Naturally, her response isn’t simply THEY SHOULD STOP SEXUALLY ASSAULTING WOMEN.
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