Weinstein lawyer: Never SA “Because I would never put myself in that position.”

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Weinstein's attorney says she's never been abused because she wouldn't put herself "in that position." . Tell Weinstein's lawyer what position you "put yourself in."

1. In a Bible study. I was 7.

2. In the care of a famous doctor.

#whereIputmyself

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Heartbreak of a thread yet always good to see victim-blaming dismantled.

She’s a dozy twonk isnt she

14 while on holiday...my parents were there, didnt stop him

Obviously bum grabbing quite frequently, also assaulted at a wedding

Dd 12, while choosing sweeties in a shop

But yeah...if only we hadnt been on holiday or at a wedding or picking sweeties in a shop. Silly us putting ourselves in that position

Twat

My mum was dragged into an alley...should not have been walking on the pavement

Ive no patience with idiots

I put myself in danger by being 10 and at my grandparents’ house. And by walking home from work. And by going shopping in Covent Garden.

What a total idiot.

The only one that I feel OK about mentioning - being unaccompanied on a bus. 9

It's amazing how often you're unaccompanied when one parent is agoraphobic and the other is rarely home/mostly absent from family life. But, yes, obviously put myself in such positions voluntarily.

I went to a party

17 and having my first boyfriend.
20 and being nice to a stranger, less than a week later it was a different man, at a pub, in the early evening, although my friend got him to leave me alone.
25 and not wanting to have sex with my then fiance/now ex-h.
31 and being at work.

9 to 13ish. In my home. Including with my toddler brother asleep next to me.

Age 9 in my own room in my house when my 14 year old cousin asked me to come and play a board game.

In my own bed. I was 8.

Going to the toilet at Sunday School. I was 9.

In Primary 7 (so I would have been about ten) waiting at the bus stop in my school uniform.

‘Luckily’ for me it was ‘only’ a creepy disgusting old man demanding a kiss then trying to grab my hair after he followed me into the bus.

I hope there is a special place in Hell for traitors to women. This attorney should be bloody ashamed of herself. She is pandering to the patriarchy and abusing her own sex to make money. Her very presence in court, as a woman defending a serial rapist, is designed to make the jury question the validity of the charges: “He can’t be that bad, if a woman is defending him”.
She makes me sick - and that was even before she spouted her victim blaming poison.

Lawyers - well they tell themselves that they are to defend the innocent and to ensure a fair trial - but truth be told, there a few who wouldn't sell their own granny to an testing lab as a lab rat for their own benefit.

Age 7 /8 by an older friend while playing.
Aged 14 by an old man while waiting for a bus.

Standing up to get off a bus whilst wearing a skirt short enough for an old man to put his hand up it, aged about 20.

Aged 13, first trip with school abroad, in a room with a lock that did not work, with a teacher who said it didn't matter that we could not lock the door. It did matter.

Well I managed to get myself born into a family with a sexually abusive dad. Silly me!

Gosh, us girls are just so thoughtless.

Tube, train, bus. Pushing my bike home because the lights weren’t working...

Silly me. Obviously I should stay within a 20 yard radius of the house at all time.

There was a woman called Jane Jackson on Radio 5 Live today talking about a photography project she has been working on about victim blaming. She was very eloquent. Women (actors) hold up signs saying what they were supposedly doing wrong to be sexually assaulted. Very timely. This lawyer was mentioned.

Apparently this photography exhibit is touring shopping malls or something and then having a longer exhibition somewhere but I can't remember where. I will try to listen again later but if anyone else knows more, do post.

My mistake has been to just be out in public a lot over the years. Just asking for comments and groping really, isn't it?

I remember seeing a display of clothes worn by women and girls when they were raped. The most heartbreaking was a tiny pair of child’s pink kiddy PJs.

At camp in a room with other classmates playing cards. I was 13.
In my bedroom at 14, my grandfather came to just "say hello".
During maths tutoring. I was 17.

There's more , some I don't even remember or just get flashbacks. I was definitely putting myself in all sorts of positions.

#whereIputmyself ?

At traffic lights, aged 11, taking my normal route home from school.
In a supermarket, aged 11, shopping for my disabled mother.
After a music competition, aged 15, told by conductor (in front of the rest of the band) that I "could make an old man very happy".
In work, aged 18, trapped in a windowless, 1 exit cupboard by a manager. Repeatedly.
At a work christmas party, aged 24 and surrounded by colleagues, while wearing a new dress.
In bed with my then-boyfriend, aged 25, when I didn't want sex as violently as he did. I cried the whole way through.
At a friend's house, not too long ago, when said friend had sex with me while I was unconscious.

Haven't bothered including the 2 times I was mistaken for a prostitute while under 18 and in my school uniform. Or the times I was sleazed on,
under 18 and in my work uniform, by men buying clothes for their (similarly aged) daughters. What's the fucking point?

In the grounds of a cathedral on a Sunday, while reading a book.

Age 8 in my back garden
Age 11 in the park with my friends
Age 12 walking upstairs in school
Age 14 & 15 in hospital outpatients consultation (same dirty pervert)
Age 17 with first boyfriend

That isn’t my definitive list, I’m stopping as I can feel my anger growing.