they re conspiring. you are so aware of what everybody says to you or about you and you are so aware of your actions. well, right now a lot of people are saying about you and to you, thank you. and there is nothing weak or weaker just think about this, please. she didn t act like a rape victim. that is a thought felt in communities that simply shouldn t. ryan, thank you for writing this. thank you for everything you ve done. i appreciate it. ryan leigh dostie. earlier this month, mike pence mysteriously scrapped a trip to new hampshire at the very last second. we now know why. we ll tell you on the other side. let s get down to business.
in the army is only rape if you yell, cry, and fight about it. i ll say that one more time. in the army, it s only rape if you yell, cry, and fight about it. a rape playbook one might say. in her new york times piece titled she didn t act like a rape victim army veteran ryan lee dosty says her reported rapes and those of two other women in the army were dismissed by officials and says a fourth woman kept quiet about hers because, quote, she knew better. dostie writes, quote, our rapes were on us. the army was telling us and neither i nor the specialist nor the staff sergeant acted enough like a rape victim. a mantra often repeated by the investigators in my own case. in a statement to nbc news an army spokesperson said this. commanders take every report of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and associated retaliatory behavior seriously by employing a wide variety of judicial, nonjudicial, and
great, direct relationships with their bank or with the technology platforms they use in their phone every day but they don t have great direct relationships with eli lilly or purdue pharma or johnson & johnson and politicians know that. that s why when they re going after the big drug companies they re not going after specific targets. they re kind of just saying those that are responsible for the opioid crisis or whatever epidemic it is. and that s kind of giving these drug companies a little bit of leg room. for now. sara fischer, thank you so much. i appreciate you joining me. next, she didn t act like a rape victim. i m going to say that one more time. she didn t act like a rape victim. that is the startling headline of an op-ed by a military veteran who writes a disturbing account of how rape is treated in the military. we ll be speaking to that veteran about why most survivors don t report rapes and instead choose to suffer and recover in silence.