Dr. Danielle Forshee, Psy.D. lends her comments to USA Today on how whisper networks help protect women from sexual assaulters
“Every workplace is different, they may have a private social media group or account, they may have a code word that they use, (or) a spreadsheet or blacklist of people they know to stay clear from,” according to Dr. Danielle Forshee, Psy.D., a licensed clinical social worker. “For those involved in the Harvey Weinstein situation, the whisper network may have functioned within a very small, tightly knit group of actors and actresses, which likely made it easier to trust each other and to know that they’re unlikely to receive negative reactions.”
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