E. Jean Carroll has alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her. But why won't she call it rape?
magazine last week, Carroll claims that Trump penetrated her against her will in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman 24 years ago. Trump denies the accusations, tossing in one of his trademark look-shaming insults — “She’s not my type” — even though Carroll in 1995 was a lithe blonde who resembled second wife, Marla Maples.Sex and the City
“Sure banter, I get it,” interviewer Alisyn Camerota replied. “You could not have known what violence would unfold. … I understand that in retrospect you blame yourself, many women do.” “It was a fight,” Carroll insisted. “I want women to know that I did not stand there, I did not freeze. I was not paralyzed. Which is a reaction I could have had. No. I fought. It was against my will. And then I ran away.” When Camerota opined that “you don’t want to be seen as a victim,” Carroll explained. “I don’t want to be seen as a victim because it quickly went past. It was a very, very brief episode in my life. I was over it very quickly.
Carroll is unlike most #metoo accusers in another way. She is among Trump’s older accusers. They came of age in an America under the control of Mad Men who scoffed at their adversaries — the founders of second wave feminism, women who promoted the sharing of emotions, expressing pain, and collective action. Not all women of that era signed on to the program. In her 2017 book, author Deborah Nelson explored the “unsentimental” strain in women of the mid- to late-20th Century.
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