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Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta
I think your post makes a lot of powerful and valid points about how the female experience shapes perceptions of threat and safety. Where I struggle a bit is in reconciling some of E.M.‘s actions during and after the alleged assault—like remaining in the room afterwards and thinking she was going to stay the night with McLeod, being alone with her phone in the bathroom during the ordeal where calling for help was possible, or returning to the scene to retrieve a ring after she had been able to leave and find safety again—with what I would expect from someone in a highly traumatic or coercive scenario. That said, I also recognize trauma affects people in complex and inconsistent ways, and I’m open to the idea that behaviors I might not understand could still be entirely consistent with distress or shock.
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The ring story is weird in general. At first she said to investigators it was her grandmother's ring, but then she said in court that it was just a random ring that she bought herself. No one found a ring after looking apparently.