the feminist librarian reads

The standards we rely on, on campuses and in courtrooms, continue to ignore decades of research about sexual assault, survival responses, and the behavior of serial predators. They also perpetuate dangerous rape myths, such as the notion that rape is forcible and violent. Laws that depend on evidence of physical brutality are laws that ignore the reality of women’s lives and experiences and holds them to a male standard that is irrelevant and unjust.