Corea del Norte cada vez más cerca de conseguir la bomba nuclear.

Los expertos en el programa nuclear de Corea del Norte comienzan a inclinarse por aceptar que Pyongyang dispone ya de la tecnología para fabricar cabezas atómicas capaces de ser instaladas en misiles intercontinentales, según han apuntado en las últimas jornadas varios analistas y hasta altos cargos del ejército de EEUU.
El propio almirante William Gortney, responsable del Comando Norte de EEUU, dijo recientemente ante el Congreso de su país que efectivamente hay que "asumir" que Corea del Norte tiene tales capacidades. Una tesis que apoyó este jueves la revista especializada IHS Jane's, que además indicó que la nación asiática también ha desarrollado el conocimiento suficiente para desplegar el misil KN-08, que podría alcanzar territorios estadounidenses.
Los analistas, sin embargo, puntualizan que Pyongyang todavía no ha realizado una prueba real del lanzamiento de este cohete algo que marcaría un punto de inflexión en la crisis que sufre la península desde que los norcoreanos realizaran su cuarto ensayo nuclear en enero.
Incluso en China, el principal vínculo de Corea del Norte con el exterior y hasta ahora su aliado más significativo, se escuchan ya voces como la del ex teniente general Wang Hongguang, que este jueves alertó que una guerra en ese territorio es inevitable y sólo es cuestión de tiempo. Wang publicó su opinión en el diario oficialista Global Times, lo cual indica un refrendo al menos tácito de la misma por parte de la cúpula comunista local.
El ex alto cargo del ejército anticipó que Corea del Norte se apresta a realizar un quinto ensayo nuclear y probar que puede disparar un cohete capaz de llegar a EEUU, lo que cree que provocará la inmediata intervención militar de Washington y Seúl.

Frenar la expansión nuclear norcoreana

Pekín se ve cada día más impotente para frenar la expansión del programa atómico norcoreano, pese al apoyo en este sentido que expresó el presidente Xi Jinping a los esfuerzos conjuntos de EEUU, Corea del Sur y Japón en la Cumbre de Seguridad Nuclear.
El propio Xi Jinping sufrió un evidente desplante cuando el ejército norcoreano disparó un misil anti-aéreo a las pocas horas de que el dignatario pidiera rebajar la tensión en la Península coreana. El cohete fue lanzado a las 12:15 hora local desde el nordeste del país asiático y recorrió unos 100 kilómetros hasta caer en el mar del Este, en la dirección de Japón, según informó la agencia surcoreana Yonhap. El martes, los norcoreanos utilizaron otro proyectil similar contra un objetivo sito en su propio territorio.
La alocución del dirigente chino se produjo en el marco de la citada Cumbre de Seguridad Nuclear que se desarrolló en la capital norteamericana, bajo la sombra de la crisis norcoreana. Xi Jinping solicitó "a todas las partes" que evitaran "palabras o gestos" que pudieran incrementar esta zozobra. Corea del Norte mantiene desde enero una escalada de gestos y amenazas que se ha acrecentado coincidiendo con las amplias maniobras que realiza el ejército de EEUU y Corea del Sur en la zona.
Su ejército ha disparado más de media docena de cohetes en las últimas fechas al tiempo que sus medios evocaban una y otra vez escenarios a cada cual más apocalíptico. Seúl acusó durante la misma jornada al país limítrofe de interferir los sistemas de navegación mediante GPS que utilizan sus navíos y aviones.

Ataque a EEUU

El último de sus exabruptos se difundió a través de DPRK Today, que adelantó un hipotético ataque nuclear contra la Casa Blanca, el Pentágono y otros objetivos de EEUU que "eliminarían" a ese país "de la historia, sin dejarle tiempo ni para arrepentirse". El mismo medio oficial dijo que esa acción superaría con mucho el daño que infringió a la nación americana los atentados del 11-S.
Algunos analistas opinan que toda la actitud de Corea del Norte se justifica por la proximidad del estratégico séptimo congreso del gobernante Partido de los Trabajadores, que se celebrará en mayo y donde se anticipa que Kim Jong-Un intentará afianzar aún más su poder. La retórica norcoreana no sólo se dirige ya hacia el exterior. El pasado lunes el principal diario local, Rodong Sinmun, advirtió a sus lectores que deben prepararse para una "nueva ardua marcha, en la cual tendremos que comer raíces una vez más", utilizando la misma terminología a la que recurre el régimen para referirse a la hambruna de los 90 en la que se estima que murieron varios millones de norcoreanos.
El editorial del matutino ha sorprendido a muchos y podría ser un reflejo del efecto que ya está teniendo en el país la nueva ronda de sanciones adoptadas por Naciones Unidas. "Estoy muy sorprendido. Cuando Kim Jong-Un heredó el poder, en su primer discurso prometió que el pueblo no tendría que apretarse más el cinturón. No creo que hablar de comer raíces siente muy bien a nivel popular", señaló Aidan Foster-Carter, un experto de la Universidad de Leed, a la página NK New
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Los niños ricos -niños de papa- pasan vacaciones en primavera, Verano, otoño e invierno,

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Los carros de golf de Louis Vuitton, fiestas privadas en yates y cerveza-pong con Dom Perignon en lugar de cerveza - niños ricos de nuevo alabar a su riqueza. Vamos a ver, dónde y cómo pasan la primavera los jóvenes de élite.


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# 2. La rica heredera en Londres, Lana Scolaro, Miami conducía un carrito de golf de Louis Vuitton.

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# 3. Lana Scolaro es la hija de un hombre de negocios, Francesco Scolaro. Las fotos fueron tomadas en "Soho Beach House" en Miami.

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# 4. Alex partido Bostanian organizado pong de la cerveza en la playa de Malibú. Sólo que en vez de cerveza barata utilizado champán Dom Pérignon.

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# 5. Algunos niños ricos prefieren pasar sus vacaciones de primavera en lugares más exóticos. En la imagen Javier Sidhu saborea la vista de Hong Kong, situada en el jacuzzi del hotel.

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# 6. Andrew Warren, al igual que muchos otros niños ricos, pasó unas vacaciones en Miami. En la foto con el alcohol caro y colegas en "El Hotel".

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# 7. Warren y su novia pasan la noche en el club de Matador.

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# 8. Warren descansando en la piscina en el hotel "1 Hotel South Beach."

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# 9. Algunas personas prefieren pasar sus vacaciones de primavera en las zonas más frías. Max Leif, por ejemplo, se pone montañas cubiertas de nieve en Aspen.

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# 10. Leif con tus amigos relaja champán después de un duro día en las cuestas empinadas.

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# 11. Nicky Kaufman cuenta de Instagram taco, ordenada en el restaurante Nobu en Miami.

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# 12. Kaufmann y amigos estaban jugando en un club de "pared" en Miami. A juzgar por sus caras, pero el dinero no da la felicidad.

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# 13. Ver Nicky Kaufman en un hotel de super lujo "1 Hotel en South Beach."

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# 14. Joyero de cuarta generación, David Wachler, se relaja en las playas de oro de las Indias Occidentales en el hotel "Four Seasons Resort" en la isla de Nevis.

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# 15. Jack Siebert fotografiado después del almuerzo en el exclusivo hotel Chateau Marmont. Siebert es el hijo del agente de Hollywood Leslie Siebert y Steven Siebert, dueño de la compañía de producción de cine Faro de entretenimiento.

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# 16. Richard Muljadi, el hijo de las mujer más ricas de Indonesia, también lanzó en Instagram fotos de sus vacaciones en Miami. En la imagen siguiente, Richard con su novia en La Villa di Versace.

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# 17. David Yehezkel tiró fotos de sus amigos hechos en el bote salvavidas en Miami, Florida.

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# 18. 15 años de edad, Maya Henry, cuyo padre dio $ 6 millones para su quinceañera, posando para fotos en un yate en las Bahamas. Su padre, Thomas J. Henry, posee un bufete de abogados.

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# 19. De origen australiano Christopher Lourdes se compró un medio de transporte de vacaciones de primavera populares entre los niños ricos - un avión privado.

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# 20. Lourdes también alabó relojes caros, mientras que la dirección de su yate se aprxima a la playa de Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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# 21. Lourdes logró visitar otro punto caliente - Acapulco (foto de abajo "Hannah Sun Club").

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Los 12 'outfits’ de la Reina Letizia que más estilizan su figura

REINA LETIZIA

Los 12 'outfits’ de la Reina Letizia que más estilizan su figura

Olivia Wilde se desnuda La actriz se atreve con un desnudo integral en un episodio de la serie ‘Vinyl’.



Olivia Wilde ha encendido las redes sociales al protagonizar un desnudo integral frontal en el último capítulo de la serie ‘Vinyl’ de la cadena HBO. A sus 32 años y siendo madre de un niño, la actriz ha demostrado que no tiene reparos a la hora de mostrar su cuerpo en televisión.
En el siguiente vídeo se puede ver la famosa escena de la serie de Martin Scorsese, donde Olivia interpreta a Devon Fisterra, la mujer de un ejecutivo discográfico:
Las curvas de Wilde no han sido las causantes del revuelo en internet, lo que ha dejado atónitos a los espectadores ha sido su vello púbico, detalle sobre el que los internautas han debatido largo y tendido en las redes. Para decepción de muchos, resulta que el pelo en cuestión era, en realidad, un postizo para recrear la moda de los 70.
Escena del último capítulo de ‘Vinyl’ en la que la actriz muestra su cuerpo al desnudo.
Escena del último capítulo de ‘Vinyl’ en la que la actriz muestra su cuerpo al desnudo. (YOUTUBE)
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Recientemente, la actriz ya había sido noticia tras confesar que fue rechazada para el papel de esposa de Leonardo DiCaprio en ‘El lobo de Wall Street’ por ser demasiado mayor. Este papel acabó siendo interpretado por Margot Robbie, de 21 años, frente a los 29 que tenía Olivia en aquel entonces.

El clásico del Sábado puede dejar muy tocado al Real Madrid.

El Clásico vivirá un ambiente eléctrico impregnado por la figura de Johan Cruyff. El duelo invita al barcelonista a compartir recuerdos, amuletos y emociones en la grada del Camp Nou y a sentirse protagonista de primera fila en un adiós multitudinario. Estarán todos. Desde la familia Cruyff a los últimos ocho presidentes, al aficionado de a pie. Los alicientes por el tributo a Johan tendrán continuidad en el césped, donde Iniesta ha anticipado que el triunfo será el homenaje de los jugadores de Luis Enrique al holandés. Andrés ha dado rango de final al partido pese a los diez puntos que les separan, lo que significa que hay muchos estímulos en juego además de poner en juego el prestigio; es decir que el Barça buscará su invicto 40 y los tres puntos porque su reto es obtener el título cuanto antes, quizá en la diada del 23 de abril por Sant Jordi, a tres jornadas del final, si logra mantener los nueve puntos de ventaja sobre el Atlético.

El Barça desea cerrar cuanto antes la Liga para volcarse en la Champions y la Copa. Es favorito claro, sabe de memoria cómo jugará y el ‘virus’ FIFA’ no ha trastocado la alineación de gala. El Madrid, centrado obsesivamente en su duelo europeo ante el Wolfsburgo, tiene el Clásico atragantado. Le incomoda tremendamente y le distrae. Viene jugando a trompicones y con muchos ratos de apatía. Pero tiene obligaciones. Ganarle a un grande como al Barça tras el 0-4 de la ida sin Messi, superar al Atlético en la tabla y hacer un juego que inyecte confianza entre su desolada afición.


De otro lado, Zidane, en estado interino si no gana la Champions, debe demostrar en el Camp Nou que es un entrenador capacitado para dirigir el Madrid. La continuidad de sus cracks también está en juego. Y Florentino no se puede permitir cerrar la temporada en blanco ante la amenaza de un segundo Triplete. Una gran ocasión blaugrana en un día para no olvidar.

Philip Hoare.- Whales are starving – their stomachs full of our plastic waste Philip Hoare

A 13-metre long fishing net and a 70cm piece of plastic from a car were among the debris recently found in stranded sperm whales.
In January, 29 sperm whales stranded on shores around the North Sea. The results of the necropsies (the animal equivalent of autopsies) of 13 of those whales, which beached in Germany, near the town of Tönning in Schleswig-Holstein, have just been released. The animals’ stomachs were filled with plastic debris. A 13-metre-long fishing net, a 70cm piece of plastic from a car and other pieces of plastic litter had been inadvertently ingested by the animals, who may have thought they were food, such as squid, their main diet, which they consume by sucking their prey into their mouths.
Robert Habeck, environment minister for the state of Schleswig-Holstein, said: “These findings show us the results of our plastic-oriented society. Animals inadvertently consume plastic and plastic waste, which causes them to suffer, and at worst, causes them to starve with full stomachs.” Nicola Hodgins, of Whale and Dolphin Conservation, added: “Although the large pieces will cause obvious problems and block the gut, we shouldn’t dismiss the smaller bits that could cause a more chronic problem for all species of cetacean – not just those who suction feed.”
The notion of these vast, sentient and placid creatures being stuffed with our trash is emblematic enough of the unequal relationship between man and sperm whale. The fact that the latter possess the largest brains of any animal that has ever lived only underlies this disconnection.
Philip HoareSadly, to anyone who follows the ongoing story of our impact on cetaceans, the terrible predicament of German whales is not new – although the scale of last January’s strandings is. In 2011, a young sperm whale was found floating dead off the Greek island of Mykonos. Its stomach was so distended that scientists believed that the animal might have swallowed a giant squid. But when they dissected its four stomachs (sperm whales, although predators, have digestive processes similar to ruminants), they found almost 100 plastic bags and other pieces of debris. One bag had the telephone number of a souvlaki restaurant in Thessaloniki. The scientists joked, grimly, that the whale could not call up to complain about the damage caused by their product.
The scale of the fate of the North Sea whales calls to mind the nesting albatrosses of Midway Island, so poignantly recorded by photographer Chris Jordan. He documented the skeletal remains of young chicks, so bloated with the plastic they had been mistakenly fed by their parents – from beer can loops and bottle tops to cigarette lighters – that they had starved from lack of nutrition.
Our use and abuse of animals seems in inverse proportion to the almost ritual reverence in which we purport to hold them. Whales have become the marine icon of ecological threat. We pay obeisance to their grandeur. But sometimes I wonder if it isn’t all an illusion. We congratulate ourselves for having stopped hunting them (well, most of them). Yet many thousands of cetaceans are compromised or killed by the pollution we allow to escape into the ocean. We cannot make the direct connection between the plastic bottles of water and what they are doing to the ultimate source of their supply. Whales are still victims of our industrialisation, our insatiable thirst for growth at the expense of all else – if in not such a direct way as they were in the past.
Recently, visiting the secret storage unit where London’s Natural History Museum stows the thousands of specimens that they are unable – or reluctant – to display in the museum, the curator of vertebrates, Richard Sabin, showed me a nondescript cardboard box in a corner. He suggested I look inside. When I opened it, I found block after block of solid, pure, spermaceti wax, the solidified oil from the sperm whale’s head.

It is the materiality of the whale that haunts me. What it has provided, albeit unwittingly, to allow us to furnish and light our own lives. Even sperm whale excretions – in the form of ambergris – are the most valuable natural substances known to us, still used as a fixative in high-fashion perfumes. Set that usage against what we now know to be cultural animals, deeply bound by family ties. Of course, it is what makes us most alike that ultimately touches us – and which may be the saving of us both. I told Meera Syal, when we met at Radio 4 the other day, that whale society is entirely matriarchal, and in some species, male whales stay with their mothers all their lives. “Ah,” she said, “they’re Indian whales.”Whales, in boxes – that’s how we saw them. It was for this substance that American and British whaleships travelled to the South Seas. This stuff that, when liquid, lit the streets of London, New York, Berlin and Paris. It made candles and makeup; lubricated the machines of the industrial revolution. So fine is spermaceti oil that Nasa used it in their space mission, as it does not freeze in outer space.

Laura Bates.- Sexism in schools is real – how can the Department for Education deny it?


Children raising hands in classroom

When Mary Bousted, a former teacher and the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, spoke out this week about the sexist school bullying that can prevent girls participating fully in the classroom, there were several possible responses one might have expected to see from the Department for Education.
This was not one of them: “Story from ATLUnion with no evidence is why sexism still exists. We should be celebrating the achievements and talents of women and girls.”
That the DfE should respond in this way is extraordinary, particularly as the defensive and combative tone of the tweet implies some kind of attack on the government itself, when Bousted in fact was simply discussing a problem she had observed during her own teaching career.
Bousted described an atmosphere that includes sexist bullying in the classroom, girls under pressure to appear attractive and compliant rather than clever and forthright, and sexist name-calling, both in real life and on social media.
Laura BatesAll this is borne out by a huge amount of evidence, including a 2010 study by YouGov for the End Violence Against Women Coalition, which found that 71% of 16- to 18-year-olds hear sexist name-calling such as “slut” or “slag” used towards girls at school on a daily basis or a few times a week. The same study revealed that nearly one third (29%) of 16- to 18-year-old girls had been subjected to unwanted sexual touching at school.
Bousted’s comments come just days after new figures emerged showing that cases of “sexting” among under-16s have “skyrocketed”, with more than 13 times as many cases investigated by police in 2015 than in 2013. Last year, a freedom of information request revealed that over 5,500 sexual offences in UK schools were reported to police in the previous three years, including more than 600 rapes. With the school year in England 195 days long, that equates to almost one reported school rape per day. And those are just the cases referred to police.
Having visited schools up and down the country to talk to pupils of all ages about gender equality, the picture Bousted paints seems entirely accurate, and the opportunity to discuss these issues in the open is hugely welcome. For the DfE to issue such an extreme response, and to seem to want to shut down discussion of the problem, is troubling and disappointing.
To imply that speaking out about these issues perpetuates sexism is downright bizarre. Of course nobody is suggesting that every single child is experiencing the same problems, nor that we shouldn’t also celebrate the achievements of women and girls (as the DfE suggested in a statement to the Guardian) – of course we should. But we are doing a disservice to those who are experiencing sexual bullying if we try to ignore or dismiss it.
In reality, the problem is compounded by the normalisation of sexist stereotypes and attempts to sweep it under the carpet. This small selection of experiences of school harassment and sexual bullying that have been shared with the Everyday Sexism project shows how experiences like these could have an impact on girls’ confidence at school:
“I had to switch school because the sexual harassment got so bad”
“Rated out of 10 and asked if I’m ‘up for it’ by my male classmates, referred to as ‘slut’ instead of my name”
“In my A-level German class, 2 boys took it upon themselves to sexually harass the girls, by making lewd remarks and twanging our bra straps”
“My seven-year-old daughter being told not to be upset that a boy in her class put his hand up her skirt, it was boys being boys”
“I asked my sister when was the last time a girl in school was called a ‘slut’ by a boy. “It happens to everyone every day”
The project also receives regular reports of precisely the kind of sexist stereotypes and bullying that Bousted highlighted as preventing some girls from participating fully in class:
“A boy in my class told me ‘Just shut up, you ugly fat cow’ when I made a mistake. Teacher ignored. Never put hand up again’
“I shouted out the wrong answer in class the other day. Some guy told me to get back in the kitchen.”
And, most ironically of all, this girl’s experience:
“A boy in school told me to put my hand down when the teacher asked us if we thought sexism still exists.”
Perhaps the DfE would prefer we all put our hands down too. But denying its existence is not the way to tackle the very real problem of sexism at school

Jaclyn Friedman. What makes a woman deny her own rape?

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If you haven’t lived through it, it can be hard to understand the powerful urge many victims feel to deny we’ve been raped. It’s almost inherently an invisible dynamic, legible only when you already speak the language of silence. Only hours after my own assault, I remember telling the people who were trying to help me to leave me alone, that it was no big deal and I just wanted to sleep.
“The first person to tell me I was gang-raped was a therapist, seven years after the fact”, is how novelist Jessica Knoll put it in an essay this week that’s been burning up the internet. Knoll is the author of last summer’s hot beach read Luckiest Girl Alive, which tells the story of Ani, who suffers a gang rape in boarding school and doesn’t speak of it for years. Knoll’s beautifully raw missive, published on Tuesday in Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter, serves as a coming-out of sorts, an acknowledgement that her character knows things about rape because Knoll herself does.
The impulse to deny your own rape isn’t just about the horror of the physical violence, though someone invading your sovereign body is, in fact, an ineffable horror. But more than that, the impulse to deny your own rape is an impulse born of the cultural meaning of victimhood. “I didn’t want to be one of those victim girls,” is a thing more than one survivor has told me. “I laughed, because laughing was easier than tending to my heart, which felt like a hot coal in my chest, on fire with shame,” is how Knoll put it.
Shame is the key word. It unlocks a constellation of secondary violences that we use to punish rape victims. Knoll was publicly slut-shamed by peers and even a teacher. One of the guys who raped her made her feel bad enough about using that word that she apologized to him and recanted. The public treats rape victims as alternately pathetic and scheming but either way suspect, too dumb to avoid getting drugged and used, but clever and vindictive enough to coordinate an elaborate group lie just because we don’t like some guy.
That’s the conclusion a judge seems to have come to in the case of Canadian radio star Jian Ghomeshi, who has been accused by more than 20 women of brutal and nonconsensual violence in the midst of sexual encounters. Four counts of sexual assault and one count related to an accusation of choking were brought against him. He was acquitted of all charges. One of the reasons cited by Judge William Horkins was the fact that some of the women stayed in touch with Ghomeshi after the alleged assaults happened. This, he felt, was “out of harmony” with the way he thought rape victims should behave. 

The trouble is that denying rape doesn’t unrape you. It doesn’t ease the trauma, or blunt the impact of the violation. It doesn’t even protect you from the shame you’re running from. The shaming of rape victims is just an extension of the pervasive shaming of women for having bodies, for our wanting to control them, to feel safe in them, to feel pleasure in them, even. When we treat victims – even male victims – as too pathetic to have prevented their own violation, we are saying: you are weak like women are inherently weak. You are worthless like women are inherently worthless. And when we treat survivors who speak up as traitors and liars, we are saying, how dare you object. How dare you take up space. How dare you insist on your humanity.All those women did was what Knoll did. What I did, at least at first. What so many victims do, whose names we may never know. They decided, probably subconsciously, that it was better to deny the violence already done to them than to acknowledge it in a culture that dehumanizes victims at every turn. Given what happened when they did come forward – they were painted as liars, their sex lives examined in the national media and now there are calls for them to be tried for perjury – it’s hard to say they were wrong.

In explaining why she’s coming forward with her story now, after all these years of denial, Knoll writes of the power of seeing so many people, “critics and editors, publicists and Hollywood executives” as well as legions of fans acknowledging Ani’s violation (and by the transitive property, Knoll’s violation) for what it was: rape.
Everyone is calling it rape now. There’s no reason I shouldn’t say what I know. There’s no reason to cover my head.” She’s speaking about her own story, of course – we have far to go before the same can be said about the culture at large. But she’s also telling us something crucial: survivors are listening. When we tell them we believe them, it can change their lives.