MixedThe GuardianWhile the tone is overwhelmingly confessional, bar Michelle Chen’s essay which provides an overview of sexual violence committed against migrants and refugees, many of the writers understandably steer away from detailed accounts of traumatic events, preferring to focus on the act of telling a story, often after many years, and moving beyond the common rationalizations \'well it wasn’t that bad\' or \'others had it worse\' ... Yet for all the book’s timeliness, and though many of the accounts are moving, there is a sense of uncertainty that hangs over it. By treating \'rape culture\' in its broadest sense, perhaps something is lost. When Aubrey Hirsch writes that \'if rape culture had a downtown, it would smell like Axe body spray and that perfume they put on tampons to make your vagina smell like laundry detergent.\' it is not altogether clear where \'rape culture\' begins and ends and where consumer capitalism begins. But perhaps this is the point.
