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Research on women’s social judgment of female victims of discrimination does not allow disentangling the impact of the type of attribution the victims made from the impact of the recipient of their complaint. The hypothesis was that female observers would judge a female victim of sexism reporting discrimination more positively than a female victim attributing her negative outcome to her abilities, when the victim was addressing the perpetrator. The opposite effect was expected when the victim was addressing a third person. Female participants had to judge a female victim of sexism attributing her negative outcome to either discrimination or her abilities and either addressing the perpetrator or a third person. The results confirmed the hypothesis. Moreover, the image of competence conveyed by the victim mediates these social judgments, showing the beneficial effect of women confronting the perpetrator.