#123 Dr Jessica Taylor: Why Women Are Blamed For Everything
Dr Jessica Taylor
She asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was wearing a revealing dress. She was too confident. She walked home alone. She stayed in that relationship. She was naïve. She didn’t report soon enough. She didn’t fight back. She wanted it. She lied about it. She comes from a bad area. She was vulnerable. She should have known. She should have seen it coming. She should have protected herself.
Victim blaming of women is prevalent and normalised in society.
What causes us to blame women who have been abused, raped, trafficked, assaulted or harassed by men? Why are we uncomfortable with placing all of the blame on perpetrators for their crimes against women?
Jessica Taylor is a working-class Feminist author, senior lecturer, speaker and researcher with a PhD in forensic psychology. She is also founder and director of Victim Focus. If you want to understand what brought Jessica to this area of research and why Women are blamed for everything and then have a listen to this podcast. Part of the #FiLiALegacyProject
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This episode of the FiLiA podcast is a recording of the latest meeting of the FiLiA Feminist Book Club. FiLiA CEO, Lisa-Marie Taylor, talks to Dr Jessica Taylor about her new book, based on three years of doctoral research and ten years of practice with women and girls in which she explores the many reasons we blame women for male violence committed against them. Learn about the powerful forces in society and individual psychology which compel us to blame women subjected to male violence. Dr Jessica Taylor writes in a way that makes this information understandable to any woman and her accessible language clearly explains these complex issues.
