I was 32 and my first novel hadn’t come out yet. I was invited to a dinner and sat next to him. I disagreed with him on a minor point. He shouted the word “rape” in my face to prove his. It was completely bizarre, disproportionate, and violent. https://twitter.com/zinziclemmons/status/992299032562229248?s=21 …
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He didn’t physically assault me. But shouting the word “rape” in my face after knowing me for maybe ten minutes is absolutely verbal sexual assault. I left that dinner halfway through. And I’d sat down so excited to meet one of my literary heroes.
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Ever since, I’ve kept an ear out for stories similar to mine. There are many. They are worse.
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If you have stories? Get in touch with me at monica@monicabyrne.org. I will absolutely protect your confidentiality.
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A fuller account of my experience with Díaz: https://www.facebook.com/monicabyrne13/posts/10105748635455288 …
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I naively believed he was referring to the woman he really loved who left him after all the cheating was discovered.
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I’ve been raped & I know many women survivors of sexual assault & rape, we all do, but no woman I know turned into a perp abuser as a result! we can’t let guilty men co-opt
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