Concentrated psychological harm is hidden among evidently ordinary young women

Evidence

Imagine you teach introductory psychology, and the next time you are in class, you draw a little mental box around the eight women sitting nearest the center of the room. They are probably smiling and chatting, eager to hear more about Pavlov’s dogs. But if your students are like mine, then probably: Seven of the eight have been sexually harassed during the past year. Three or four of them have been manipulated into having unwanted sex. Two of them have had to fight off a rapist by this point in their lives. One of them was sexually abused as a young child. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2466

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘ordinary-face-of-violence’ framing in A Midwife’s Tale and other community-level studies. — connects to: Young girls suffer secret obsessions about being physically abnormal; 76 percent of women under thirty have experienced online abuse or harassment — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 349