Naomi Wolf: Sexual Assault Victims Should Be Going Public, Naming Attackers

Naomi Wolf talked with Michael Smerconish on CNN today and said that if more victims of sexual assault want to see justice done, they need to go public, identify themselves, and publicly identify their attacker.

Wolf was going off the Rolling Stone report fallout, and charged that college campuses “use the anonymity that victims are encouraged to want as a way to avoid liability, to avoid transparency, to… hide any open reporting of sexual assault statistics.”

Smerconish found it a little strange someone viewed by many as a feminist champion would be telling women to fight in public. Wolf acknowledged the backlash she’s gotten, and pointed to how she went public in 2004 accusing a Yale professor of “sexual encroachment.” And Wolf said that experience showed her just how secretive college campuses can be when it comes to keeping such things under wraps.

Watch the clip below, via CNN:

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