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We need more women in leadership and more women in positions of power. But we also need women in those positions who understand how deeply patriarchy shapes our society. Because women can blame women too.

4/10/26, 12:21 pm2 reposts10 likes

Rabbi Sandra

@rabbisandra.org

When judges, prosecutors, and other people in positions of authority give men a slap on the wrist for sexual violence, who are they identifying with? Why does our system seem to have more sympathy for the man who committed the violence than for the woman who has to live with what he did?

Rabbi Sandra

@rabbisandra.org

A man can get probation. A woman can live with the trauma for the rest of her life. Is it because we don’t understand how traumatizing rape is? Is it because our society has spent generations teaching men that women’s bodies are theirs to take?

Rabbi Sandra

@rabbisandra.org

I don’t know. But I do know I’m tired of living in a society that worries about ruining a man’s life while minimizing the life he has already traumatized.