for the myriad defenders of rapists online today as a backlash to the Cornell 7 case: don't worry, most rape victims don't even bother to press charges or even tell anyone. they know what lies in store for them: hostility, doubt, scorn, contempt, insults, threats. sympathy from a few but not enough to compensate for the pain from other quarters. in the long run, statistically, the perpetrators & their defenders win. & we are well into a misogynist era in this T***p presidency in which professional women, especially Black women, have been demoted, terminated from positions they have earned in the military & in government.