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LZ Granderson: Out of the many celebrity #MeToo stories told in the past five years , only a handful have acknowledged the experience of multiple assaults.
Research shows that once a person is assaulted, research shows they're more likely to be assaulted again, a phenomenon called “revictimization” Around 50 percent of children who survive sexual assault reexperience it later in life, and even a single incident in adulthood can increase the risk for it to happen again.
There’s no conclusive evidence as to why revictimization happens, but we do know that normalizing assault can contribute to future harm.
If a survivor has not internalized their experience as exceptionally traumatic, they are less likely to advocate for themselves, or demand accountability if it happens again.
Oppression also plays a significant role.
Those with marginalized identities are more at risk for experiencing assault in general.
Every survivor I interviewed for this piece told me they fully accept the potential that they’ll experience assault in the future.
The accumulation of more and more of these events creates a compounding impact, one where each additional incident begins to amplify the ones before.
This is what we mean when we talk about rape culture. The first thing we can do to start to dismantle it is to recognize what we're up against.
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