plus les choses changent, plus elles restent les mêmes, still holds true today, as we watch girls and women get slut shamed and dragged through the mud for trying to get justice against physical violence in the world today.

victim blaming is one of the main reason girls and women don't report violence against them. the system is set up this way and many women are humiliated, hushed, and betrayed by their own family members.

i am one of these women. my older sister and my mom refused to assist me when i reported violence against me, as a child and as a teenager. how they responded was so awful that i regretted telling them about it. years of self-harm is the result of such trauma for many, if they don't commit suicide first.

the more things change the more they stay the same, as we watch the current state of affairs in hollywood with the famous men movie stars being protected, while the woman is dragged through the mud.

it's even worse when they do honor killings and the doctors at the morgue report that some of these girls are virgins and they were killed because of a rumor about their morality.

patricia douglas, is girl #27, of 120 girls and women, who was lied to and told they were told it was a movie shoot, but instead was served for the men to do with as they pleased.

douglas was the first woman to take on a film studio for sexual assault in may 1937. the rape and subsequent smear campaign by the biggest film studio proves the fix is in.

She was still underage and yet the newspaper article printed her identity, image, and her home address, while only referring to the movie maker giant, as the local studio. her attorney, the doctor who treated her, the attendant who found her, her own mother, all got compensated to work against her.

at the same time she was going though all this, the studios protected loretta young and clark gable's reputation and the newspapers never reported about their baby in the same printing, while patricia got dragged through the mud.

one would think that after many decades of change, it would be different now but as of today, the fix is still in. all one has to do is look at the headlines of the current woman in hollywood trying to go to court for justice agains physical violence.

the fix is in, it has always been in, and will continue to be in, as long as women betray other women. let's face the truth!

if we can't get it together among ourselves, how can we possibly expect the men to act any different?