I refer particularly to women survivors of sexual violence of any kind — rape, molestation, stalking, verbal/physical abuse and street harassment. Don’t say, “Maybe you imagined it.” Even in a crowd, a woman knows when her breasts are pulled, or posterior pinched. Wasn’t that being too adventurous...”The list of questions we throw at women survivors of violence often blames them for purposely bringing on the violence by something they did or said. This isn’t an exhaustive list of what not to say to survivors. But suffice to say, women survivors of sexual violence don’t need our moral judgement.

Source: The Hindu February 27, 2018 12:56 UTC