E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, and the Women Pushing Past the Trope of Victimhood

There was a time when the only good female victim was the bleeding one.The high water mark for salacious crime reporting- the yellow journalism purveyed in the late 19th century -made sure that every crime story came with an innocent, young, white victim, hopefully in a nightgown stained red.Justice for women inevitably took the form of white male vengeance attacking whomever had sullied the lady.

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