For months, he has presented his pain to us, granting a hospital-room interview to catalog his suffering and using a walker on his way in and out of the courthouse. His defense team has argued he deserves your sympathy. They asked the judge to let Weinstein’s surgeon testify to confirm their client is “hurt and enfeebled.”
Pain bias in the health care systemBlacks who say they’re in pain are less likely to be believed than whites – this holds true whether those listening are laypeople or health care providers. That bias affects how the pain of black patients is managed and treated. Story continuesBias seeking justiceIn the aftermath of violence, perception of women’s pain creates a conundrum. On the one hand, their experiences often get minimized or labeled as their fault. On the other hand, widely held myths about rape mean women have to exhibit their pain in the right way at the right time to be believed.
Cultural betrayal trauma theory explains how marginalized women pay an additional price when they experience violence at the hands of marginalized men. This is within-group violence — for instance, when a black man sexually assaults a black woman or girl. Author and survivor Chanel Miller’s story suggests people often sympathize with assailants – in her case, a young white man, Brock Turner. As she recounts in her memoir: “I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know if he was drunk when the violence happened, people would offer him sympathy.
New_Narrative they were both owned by white men in American history.
This is a new concern, in 2020? Pah.