Victims who go public are often disbelieved and publicly smeared.
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Some who were brushed off or disbelieved have been vindicated.
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This leaves men with unwanted sexual experiences feeling ignored or disbelieved.
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Is there any joy so sweet as the hard-earned but disbelieved?
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We have done so knowing we will be disbelieved, discredited and degraded.
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Less clear is precisely which 10 to 30 percent should be disbelieved.
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She has sided with those who disbelieved, disrespected, and even mocked survivors.
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It's too easy for her to be smeared, silenced, belittled, or disbelieved.
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But women have an absolute right not to be disbelieved without further examination.
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We are consistently disbelieved and misdiagnosed because doctors cannot see past our fatness.
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In the past, sexual misconduct in politics tended to be ignored, disbelieved or excused.
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"Those of us who have come forward, we've often been disbelieved, shamed," said Judd.
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And why wouldn't they be afraid when women are routinely disbelieved and commonly blamed?
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Sexually assaulted women were being believed and valued who had been disbelieved and denigrated.
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Not only are they disbelieved but they are retaliated against for reporting these crimes.
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It means that the seriousness of sexual assault is minimized and victims are disbelieved.
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It means that the seriousness of sexual assault is minimized, and victims are disbelieved.
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It's not exactly that I was disbelieved; it's that in the end, I was dismissed.
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In all of these cases, past and present, the women were not only disbelieved, but punished.
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Women have bared their souls and in return have been scoffed at, threatened, insulted, and disbelieved.
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After an encouraging report this March, my colleague Eamon Javers asked whether Trump still disbelieved the data.
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Instead of getting the help they need, many people with ME, such as Angus Rodwell, are disbelieved.
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But in a play that is all about women's voices — quieted, disbelieved, and disregarded — her silence speaks volumes.
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It's as if a victim of robbery were disbelieved because she lived in a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood.
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Women – then and now – have good reason to worry that they might be shamed, disbelieved, humiliated and ostracized.
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Russian families delight in the performances, with many telling VICE News they firmly disbelieved any allegations of cruelty.
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People who speak up about sexual misconduct — especially if they're women — have long been blamed, shamed, and disbelieved.
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The advertisement showed what the mainstream media was determined to overlook — that black women were disbelieved and undervalued.
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She's insulted, nagged, disbelieved, denied, wrapped in packing tape, at some point, and dumped out of a truck.
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Women of color find their reports disbelieved because of racist narratives that cast them as hypersexual or undesirable.
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It's also common for the women who report these abuses to be dismissed or disbelieved out of hand.
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She noticed a common thread: "They were also getting disbelieved by their doctors, and just minimized, frankly," Brea says.
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"I would say that everybody should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence," she said.
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Republicans in Congress wanted to disbelieve everything Cohen said, in order to protect the president, so they disbelieved him.
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The independent report also reveals failures by multiple organizations and law enforcement agencies who "shunned, shamed or disbelieved" survivors.
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Following the attack, Marie's account was disbelieved by police and she was later charged with filing a false report.
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Being disbelieved, disregarded, or retaliated against is hard and painful -- especially if the women have partners and young children.
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The fear of being ridiculed or disbelieved for speaking out about assault is often heightened for fat women. 15.
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If Moore wins because the allegations against him were disbelieved, it is unlikely the Senate will do anything about it.
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" Clinton responded: "Well, I would say that everyone should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence.
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Why shouldn't I feel some sort of outrage after all these years [of] being ignored and disbelieved and tossed aside?
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"Well, I would say that everybody should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence," Clinton responded.
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Haas also makes the larger point that women—especially women of color—are often disbelieved and dismissed by medical professionals.
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The detectives who disbelieved Marie and coerced her into recanting her story also faced fairly minimal repercussions in real life.
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Why shouldn't I feel some sort of outrage that after all these years, being ignored and disbelieved and tossed aside?
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Women who are poor, of color, who come forward alone — especially these women — will continue to be disbelieved and blamed.
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"It is hurtful because I didn&apost expect to go through something so bad and be disbelieved by your own country."
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Others are saying that women should just be disbelieved en masse, since accusations are simply cheap talk that anyone might concoct.
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Most rapes still go unreported, on campus and off of it, often because women are ashamed and afraid of being disbelieved.
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And when survivors first began to come forward publicly, some were shunned, shamed or disbelieved by others in their own communities.
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"Women of color in particular face a redoubling of the risk of being disbelieved if you bring a complaint," Martin says.
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Victims fear that they will be shamed, stigmatized or disbelieved, or that they will be subject to retaliation by their attackers.
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After years of feeling "ignored and disbelieved," Dylan Farrow is speaking out about the sexual assault allegations against her father Woody Allen.
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Why shouldn't there be concern about disbelieved forecasts of actions that if taken would push inflation further below target than current forecasts?
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The psychological and cultural inability to come to terms with that reality results in many victims being disbelieved, and treated quite badly.
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We treated any words he spoke in his own defense as if they were automatically to be disbelieved because he had uttered them.
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It was soon uncovered that the Grand Duke of Hesse (Anastasia's uncle, who disbelieved Anderson) had paid the newspaper handsomely for the investigation.
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With his comments about Christine Ford at his rally, Trump is not just sending the message that survivors with imperfect memories should be disbelieved.
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But there are those who do report who continue to be ignored, disbelieved, or experience retaliation even after talking to their human resources representatives.
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To wit, in The Dream Door, the antagonist's bloodlust intensifies the more his steward is gaslit and disbelieved by the men in her life.
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Meanwhile, dismissing violence as play contributes to a climate in which survivors are discouraged from coming forward and their experiences are discounted or disbelieved.
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Another is that the victims stay silent, fearing that their careers will be harmed if they speak out, and that they will be disbelieved.
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Some people are drawn to unconventional health treatments for legitimate reasons, like feeling disbelieved by doctors or lacking access to affordable healthcare, for example.
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Whatever Mueller presents (presuming the Trump-controlled Department of Justice tells us) will be believed by some, disbelieved by others and debated ad nauseam.
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They may have been revered in the distant past, but their elites behaved with virtual impunity because allegations of harassment were so widely disbelieved.
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There is much more work to do throughout society, especially to reach the most marginalized survivors and support those most likely to be disbelieved.
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" A dangerous message, wrote former prosecutor Elie Honig, that discourages survivors from reporting crimes because they fear "they will be shamed, stigmatized or disbelieved.
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"I would say that everyone should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence," she responded before moving on to other questions.
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If you think you're being disbelieved by your doctor, go to another one until you feel heard — after all, nobody knows your body like you.
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"I would say that everyone should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence," Clinton said calmly before moving onto other questions.
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They insisted that they children were well fed, and they completely disbelieved any allegations that the men with their children could have committed sexual abuse.
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To him, it was as if the victims had been relegated to invisibility, in some cases shunned by their neighbors or disbelieved by their family.
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"There are feelings of shame, blame, fear of being disbelieved, having to talk in detail about every moment, what was said, what was thought," she explains.
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We cannot forget this, or the women and men who have been harassed or assaulted but aren't "conventionally attractive" will be ignored, silenced, or worse, disbelieved.
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"Well, I would say that everybody should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence," Clinton said at a December town hall event.
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Women — who historically have been disbelieved by doctors and have had their chronic pain conditions dismissed — started to seek out alternative ways to treat their ailments.
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"I think it is easier for a female member to imagine what it's like to be victimized, to be disbelieved, disregarded, and retaliated against," she says.
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Sometimes in a credibility battle it is not so much who the jury believes as whether there is enough so that the witness is not completely disbelieved.
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The dystopia in the novel is simply America in the 1970s, in which marginalized people are experimented on, disbelieved, and murdered, without regard for their rights or humanity.
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Some people may choose not to report sexual assault and harassment immediately after an incident because they worry about being disbelieved or because they fear retaliation, for example.
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The cost is staggering for black people, who are told that what we see with our own eyes is not true — the vicious toll of being repeatedly disbelieved.
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Many survivors don't report because they fear being disbelieved or blamed for their own assaults, Venkayla Haynes, an anti-violence organizer and advocate, told Vox in an email.
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"There's a fear of being disbelieved, blamed, enduring further harassment from people that don't believe them — or further abuse from the perpetrator — and having their privacy violated," Houser says.
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In addition, secretary for social inclusion Vanda Pignato told the Guardian earlier this year that women often do not report abuse against them because women are often disbelieved by police.
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In my experience, if assaulted, most women told no one, not even our own mothers, for fear of being disbelieved, blamed or labeled as less valuable potential wives or employees.
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For so many women, these past weeks have been agony, the doubled dismay of having been hurt, then having been mocked; our pain disbelieved and drowned out by their laughter.
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But lately, when we hear mention of "women's experience," we're often hearing about a more disruptive, less organized type of shared experience: that of having one's experience challenged or disbelieved.
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Regardless of what happens this week, though, D'Andrea is hopeful that the hearing will convince other victims of sexual abuse, who fear being disbelieved and discounted, to tell their story.
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Media figures, operating in a larger landscape where women are doubted and disbelieved, especially if they're seen as promiscuous, are primed to laugh at her and everything she stands for.
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Stephens is not the only survivor of Nassar's abuse who was disbelieved or ignored — as Vox's Jane Coaston notes, Michigan State officials first received a report of Nassar's behavior in 1997.
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They have always faced the possibility that their words will be disbelieved, their pain disregarded, their lives upended — that they will be reduced to a mere footnote in a man's life.
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In the months to come, as the Germans moved much of their Army and Air Force and logistics staff to the border, he received more and more warnings, and disbelieved them all.
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The only witness to the murder is a 25-year-old would-be muckraking reporter for a neighborhood weekly (Jennifer Salt), widely disbelieved by investigators because of her articles on police brutality.
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We have evidence of that in the University of North Dakota study about "rape" versus "force," and also in what happens every day when victims come forward publicly, only to be automatically disbelieved.
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It's important for men in particular to speak out about this, because it helps fight rape culture — a toxic status quo wherein the seriousness of sexual assault is minimized and victims are disbelieved.
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Victims of rape and abuse are often reluctant to tell their stories in public for fear of being disbelieved or stigmatized, and that silence can reinforce the illusion for victims that they are alone.
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It hurt to watch Christine Blasey Ford recount a traumatic incident to a panel of repugnant old men, then be questioned and disbelieved publicly and cast aside to be alone with her death threats.
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This claim was disbelieved by opponents, including many Tories, who say no negotiations are happening, partly because Mr Johnson has made no clear proposals to replace the backstop to avert a hard border in Ireland.
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For many, calling for Americans to "believe women" and "believe survivors" is a way to push back against a culture in which people who report sexual misconduct — especially if they are women — have often been disbelieved.
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In the chorus of best-selling contemporary domestic thrillers, a triumphant #MeToo parable has emerged: that of the flawed, scorned, disbelieved, misjudged, and underestimated female witness whose testimony is rejected—but turns out to be correct.
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Though I had seen it happen to my clients, I now understood firsthand that being disbelieved is nearly universal for people with chronic illnesses, especially those that are largely invisible or hard to diagnose or both.
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Reporting a stolen car or being mugged can be a hassle, but doing so doesn't come with the risk of being disbelieved and shamed and having your private life turned upside down like reporting a rape does.
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Far too often, women are disbelieved and undermined when they attempt to report their own sexual assaults, and are routinely ridiculed and harassed when they speak out about their own experiences with sexism and misogyny in general.
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She hasn't seen the widespread solidarity and outspokenness among women porn performers that she's seen among mainstream women actors, because women in porn are still more afraid than their mainstream counterparts of being disbelieved and ruining their careers.
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It's a movie that reflects a keen understanding of gender dynamics and how regularly women are undermined, disbelieved, and made to question their own realities — by their spouses and their doctors as well as the occasional evil coven.
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Women's rights advocates say prosecutions often fail as many victims are disbelieved or considered to blame, with cases around consent - after sex happens in private between two adults who know each other - often considered too hard to win.
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" When women complain of hormonal side effects to their doctors, they can be disbelieved: "They get told it can't be the Mirena, which causes them distress and they keep going backwards and forwards to see their healthcare provider.
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What was it like, after so many years of being disbelieved, waking up, seeing things like that in print, having the conversation change in a way where people actually accepted what you had been saying for so long?
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Women who report are often worse than disbelieved: they can have their jobs threatened, they can lose their family's support, they can be treated like the guilty one and interrogated, rather than questioned, to the point of retraumatization.
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The women who have accused Mr. Moore of harassment, sexual assault and molestation are either disbelieved as "fake news," or discounted because it was more important to defeat the Democrat than to take the issue of sexual abuse seriously.
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" Cassandra, a glamorous photographer who descends on Balangiga ("a silken pest in a canoe"), winds up bearing witness to the carnage and, like her classical counterpart, is destined to be disbelieved, "for after all she is only a woman.
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Because Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters spent the Obama era setting a new precedent: that good economic news is to be ignored, downplayed or disbelieved -- or at least never credited to the guy in the White House.
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"The court cited no evidence (much less 'solid' evidence) that the Secretary disbelieved DOJ's letter and, instead, secretly thought that reinstating the citizenship question to the census would not be useful for VRA enforcement," DOJ said in its new brief.
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Now, the statements from Fantastic Beasts' powers that be are their own troubling entity, and, to some, serve as yet another symbol of the ways in which women's grievances will be disbelieved or dismissed in favor of a charming man.
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" Woods' accusation that Tamblyn is lying "sent me back to that day in that producer's office, and back to all the days I've spent in the offices of men; of feeling unsure, uneasy, questioned and disbelieved, no matter the conversation.
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The trial, in which Zuma was acquitted, was widely seen as symptomatic of the processes by which women are disbelieved in rape cases, particularly in South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.
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Mr. Woods's accusation that I was lying sent me back to that day in that producer's office, and back to all the days I've spent in the offices of men; of feeling unsure, uneasy, questioned and disbelieved, no matter the conversation.
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Women have noticed that the GOP doesn't believe women (aka doesn't believe in "ruining men's lives," right Lindsey Graham?), and have responded with an outpouring across social media of their stories of being sexually assaulted, raped, shamed, intimidated and disbelieved.
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"It hurt to watch Christine Blasey Ford recount a traumatic incident to a panel of repugnant old men, then be questioned and disbelieved publicly and cast aside to be alone with her death threats," my colleague Libby Watson wrote on Tuesday.
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Legal cases often drag on for years (it is estimated that there are more than 30 million cases pending in Indian courts), and when women do make it to court they are routinely disbelieved by judges who have a narrow understanding of consent.
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This, it would seem, is what Woolf really wanted to talk to the Society for Women's Service about: how writers need experiences to write about, but women are kept from or judged for having them, or their experience is diminished, disbelieved, denied.
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And when he started nominating people whose sole qualification for office was that they weren't qualified or that they actively disbelieved in the missions of the agencies they were tapped to run, that's when you knew our defense mechanisms had to assert themselves.
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Both the article and Unbelievable explore the case on an 18-year-old woman who reported her rape to the police, only to be disbelieved and labeled a false accuser until Detective Stacey Galbraith realized that identical rapes had occurred in different police districts.
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For Roy Moore's accusers, who say they were preyed upon 40 years ago when they were 14 to 18 years old, hard evidence like this does not exist, and so they face the pain not only of coming forward, but also of being disbelieved and disparaged.
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Centering the lived experience of patients, especially those who have been historically marginalized and disbelieved by the medical community, like women—and especially women of color—will only benefit us and further our progress in the fight for better access to and quality of reproductive healthcare.
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Leaving feels like a closeup, while Surviving is a series of establishing and medium shots, toggling between a big picture about how black women and girls are disbelieved in society and a semi-intimate look at their stories that focuses almost extensively on the immediacy of the abuse.
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Amber Tamblyn America's never-ending procession of survivors of sexual assault and harassment being disbelieved has me thinking about something I wrote a few weeks before the #MeToo movement broke wide open — an essay that, for me, felt less like an opinion and more like a desperate declaration.
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All too often, people fear coming forward in the first place because they may be disbelieved, or harmed yet again by police officers — "sexual misconduct at the hands of law enforcement is very real, especially for marginalized communities," Venkayla Haynes, an anti-violence organizer and advocate, told Vox in December.
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"His job as an emissary of civilization was made almost impossibly hard by the fact that the English people he dealt with still believed in their own civilization and disbelieved in his," the British poet and novelist John Wain wrote in a review of the memoir in The New York Times.
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And we've seen quite a lot of public discussion that's not simply an airing of what's happened to women (and men), but also of #WhyIDidntReport, with heart-wrenching stories of why people did not report sexual assault or, perhaps worse, how they were shamed or disbelieved or ostracized or ignored when they did.
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She said that Woods's claim that her account was false reminded her of previous experiences: Mr. Woods's accusation that I was lying sent me back to that day in that producer's office, and back to all the days I've spent in the offices of men; of feeling unsure, uneasy, questioned and disbelieved, no matter the conversation.
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"He needed to understand that women feel incredibly enraged about the thought of our stories, of our experiences of surviving sexual violence being dismissed, laughed at, disbelieved, and I think I just felt a great sense of urgency and I think I saw in his face that he could not escape the emotion," Archila later told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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But it had also become clear by then that Moore, who had dismissed all calls to drop out, retained plenty of supporters within Alabama's Republican electorate—voters who defiantly disbelieved The Washington Post's reporting and were loyal enough that polls continued to show Moore in a dead heat or even ahead of Democratic challenger Doug Jones.
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BlacKkKlansman's depiction of how the black cop Stallworth (as well as Flip, the Jewish cop who's forced to play a racist anti-Semite while working undercover with Stallworth) is basically code-switching in every scene, how that switching is believed and disbelieved by different characters, and how hard these ideological shifts can be on the person performing them is where the movie was most successful for me.
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We women, one: Our voices have been squelched; and number two: those of us who have come forward, we've often been disbelieved, minimized, shamed, and so much of the movement is about externalizing that shame and putting it where it belongs, which is with the perpetrator; and us being the phoenixes who can light the way, as Mira said, not only within Hollywood, but for safe and equitable workplaces across all spaces and all sectors.
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