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One unfortunate thing about sex trafficking is that it's so charged, so rare, and has unambiguously "good victims" vs "bad guys" - there's a lot of incentive to identify as a victim, or play up the degree it's happened to you. This can muddy the waters of real vs fake victims

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Same issue with "believe all rape victims" - super good in theory, like women are often underbelived, but this well intentioned structure ends up providing strong social cover for bad actors. Lie about it and people are afraid to doubt you, because we've demonized doubt.

6:42 PM · Jan 22, 2023

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All of this is tragic, because as long as bad actors can plausibly masquerade as good victims, the actual victims will be paying the price of being doubted. (that being said there's a sex trafficking survivor on twitter whose story I find kinda sus but I'm afraid to say)

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God grant me your eloquence. I wonder if I said this exact thing to those who always tout “believe all women” if they could digest it. It just makes sense. And this is coming from someone who agrees that women are under-believed I’m the grand scheme of things.

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You should believe women accusing men of rape with a high degree of confidence. The X-factor is what the woman stands to gain if her claim is believed. Hence why my confidence goes down when a celebrity is accused of sexual misconduct - the accuser stands to gain a lot of status

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Yeah Gary Dodson went to school a few years ahead of me.