There are countless different ways in which victims can and will react to sexual violence and all are valid

ONE of my favourite things to do around Oscar season is to read The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot’ in which anonymous members of the Academy admit who they voted for and explain their reasons why.

It usually lives up to the title and is both brutal and honest and gives an interesting — and sometimes disturbing — insight into the minds of the members of one of the most important film clubs in the world. In February, I was struck by the similarity of some of the responses to the movie Elle. The movie is a psychological thriller about a woman (played by Isabelle Huppert) who is raped in her home but does not report the assault due to negative past experiences with the police, and many of the Academy members talking to The Hollywood Reporter were baffled by this.

“...I eliminated her [Huppert]