I'm grateful for people like her. As someone who's been a perfect victim and as someone who's been at plenty of risk of being an imperfect victim we as a society desperately need to be better about imperfect victims.

Idgaf if you were out drinking in something skimpy and flirting with a bunch of people. If you said no you said no. If someone didn't ask and did shit anyways you still didn't consent. If you were too intoxicated to consent you still didn't consent. It's the imperfect victims who need us to speak up for them most

Edit: wait, what the fuck someone broke into her home, broke her windows, and stabbed her partner shortly before the trial‽ For a fucking civil trial with no possibility of jail time. What the actual fuck‽

Hand, 37, has published a book, Not the Perfect Victim, that chronicles the assault and the aftermath of a case that continues to reverberate on both sides of the Atlantic. Jimmy Fallon triggered an outcry in June after hosting McGregor on The Tonight Show for a softball interview.

Fallout from the case continued to play out on social media, said Hand. “I get so many beautiful messages online. And then I would get the odd hate message, from women and men, just calling me names, horrible names.”

Very disturbing that the rapist pays a fine and that’s it; he still appears on the Telly and gets invited.