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Me Too Unless You’re A Jew
How extreme October 7 Rape outrage coupled with Gaza genocide harms all sexual assault survivors
Do I like the fact that my Wikipedia entry emphasizes the fact that I was raped 11 days after my 21st birthday by a trusted professor?
No.
I don’t also don’t like the fact that, for decades, I thought this rape was an isolated instance of wrongdoing, and also that it was my fault.
If only I hadn’t gone to the man’s house on a Sunday morning to repay a debt. If only —
I now know my rapist was very likely to have shared the attitudes toward non-Jewish (Gentile) women that infamous child traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had. Maria Farmer, a survivor of Epstein’s crimes against women and girls, has said that Epstein & Maxwell would speak openly about their superiority to other non-Jewish people in front of her. Maria says that neither of the pair believed that there was anything wrong in the horrible crimes they committed against young women and girls.
My rapist, who was Jewish, never said he thought he was better than me in so many words. But I could tell that he was angry that I had won the blind-judged writing prize that he administered for a second year in a row. I had a strong feeling that he…
