"Credibility is a basic survival tool."—Rebecca Solnit, in a must-read essay* entitled "The Problem With Men Explaining Things," which addresses, among other things, how many men's insistence on treating every woman as "an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge" steals women's credibility, silences us by virtue of assuming we have nothing of value or wisdom to say.
Consider, for a moment, what it means to rob of credibility an entire class of people who are victimized by sexual violence at an epidemic rate.
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* Content Note: Rape culture; violence; misogyny disablist language.
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