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moviefreakedmind
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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6-Dec-2017, 5:49 PM

yhwx said:

Handman said:

I find it kind of unsettling that sexual abuse in the public conscious is all about men preying on women… it goes both ways… I’d know.

Woman-man harassment schemes are much less common than man-woman or even man-man (see: Spacey, Kevin). While I’m sure it happens both ways, trying to frame it as an everybody problem is disingenuous.

It is an everybody problem. I typed a story of mine recently and then deleted it because it’s embarrassing. The short version of the story is that when I was harassed by some dumb, evil motherfucker absolutely no one cared. At all. You can’t expect everyone to be up in arms about something if you’re unwilling to acknowledge the reality that it’s not a black-and-white issue that only affects certain people. Your soulless, pragmatic approach to “this happens more so other people’s experiences are automatically less important” actually sickens me quite a bit. By your logic someone could just as easily say that since most people won’t be raped, it’s disingenuous to frame it as such a big problem. Also, your “I’m sure it happens both ways,” is totally dishonest. You know that it happens both ways so don’t frame it disingenuously.