I have never been sexually abused, but I’ve been thinking about how it’s weirdly hard to get people to care about sexual abuse or other crimes unless it fits a certain narrative or perpetuates a pre-existing bigotry….
. if you acknowledge sexual abuse in the film/tv industry then anti semitic people will say it’s because Jewish people control Hollywood 🙄.
. If you acknowledge sexual abuse in the music industry then people will focus on the black men in rap music and perpetuate racist stereotypes
. Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is now more widely known, but there are still people who will use that to feed into religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants and perpetuate conspiracy theories. Abuse in Protestant groups and in other religions has yet to be covered in the same way.
. LGBT people are disproportionately likely to be victims of abuse but are being called groomers???
. People blame cases of incest on if they are from the American south 🙄
. Most cases of abuse are against children, but also FULLY GROWN ADULT WOMEN have also been speaking about sexual misconduct for SEVERAL DECADES and are still being blamed on their clothing and called “unlikable” for making a fuss 😤
It’s just so sad that at least one of these narratives always pops up whenever a man can actually even get convicted which is still rare. When will people realize that the root of this is problem is hierarchy of power and not whatever group of people you don’t like.
Fun fact: if you start Year of Hell pt I no later than 10:30pm on December 31st, you can start Year of Hell pt II at exactly 11:17:20pm and Janeway will crash Voyager into the Krenim Weapon Ship exactly at the stroke of midnight.
We need to boost Colonel Kurtz’s message in the hope that serious journalists will see it and finally report the issue of falsely accused men more widely.
It shouldn’t have gone wrong. Another gang asking for yet another hit to one of their own, okay pay and no special requests. Murdock didn’t mind it at all, he needed to get rent and start saving up for his own enjoyment. After following around the supposed general of the area, he’d coaxed him to have a drink. It was perfectly easy, though he didn’t get the chance to spike his drink. Watching his target apparently get drunk, enough that he asks Murdock to take him home. Too easy.
Carrying him into his workshop, he doesn’t hear the switch of a blade being pulled out of the targets pocket. As he tries to drag him up onto the table, Murdock feels the blade cut into his stomach. Screaming as he struggles in the hold, the act of drunkenness disappearing from his target. “Times up, isn’t it? You’ve been overdue for a while, so the boss wants a pound of flesh instead. Don’t pass out yet, want you to get up and personal with the boss.”
I’m not sure what “feminism” has come to but friendly reminder that PUBLICLY interrogating your friend about all of the most private, intimate, details of her personal sex life while she is trying to have a relaxing afternoon by a pool is not exactly revolutionary feminist activism. Especially not when every woman has different experiences and trauma and many women struggle with self esteem.
Seriously one of my friends did this yesterday to my other friend and publicly mocked and bullied her for being “sexually frustrated” because she hasn’t had a penis inside of her yet by a public pool where the sound echoes off of the concrete and anyone can hear everything!
She then said “I love feminism! I love that we can talk about this!” No you are not being a sex positive feminist you are publicly embarrassing your friend!!!
Watching “Sex and the city” really convinced a generation of women that being a rich straight white woman in a big city who has friends she over shares about her private life with is inherently what “feminism” looks like 🙄
All this does is make women compete against each other for experiences with men and it is fucking WEIRD and INVASIVE and DISRESPECTFUL and SOCIALLY INEPT and fucking RUDE! It was none of her fucking business to be publicly invasive like that. Can we bring back social propriety???? Do men talk to each other like this????
Women today think this is “feminism” while we still don’t have maternity leave, childcare, etc!!! And sex education and contraception is under attack!