Olympic diver’s revelations spark discussion on how daunting it is for victims

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PETALING JAYA: Diving star Datuk Pandelela Rinong says she decided to speak up and share her past experience with sexual harassment as a way of offering support to other victims.

The Olympic medallist, who was questioned why she brought up her past experience with sexual harassment only now, said she also hopes to encourage future victims to be “brave when I wasn’t”.

“Still totally in support of #RapeJokeIsNotFunny, hoping to encourage the future ones to be brave when I wasn’t,” she wrote on Twitter on Monday night. Following criticisms after questioning Pandelela’s timing in sharing her past experience with sexual harassment, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu said he was merely trying to get an explanation from all angles before taking action.“What I meant was that we need to get more explanation from Pandelela and those who were involved in the lewd joke.

However, Women’s Aid Organisation said questioning irrelevant details such as the timing in which survivors spoke out or the manner in which they spoke out is a way of dismissing or minimising the experiences of violence that women have encountered. Anis said Pandelela’s decision to speak out now about something that happened years ago does not invalidate her experience at all.

 

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