For those of you who believe it's acceptable to belittle rape and sexual abuse.

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

No, it's not. You might be casual, you might be trying to break a taboo, but for those people who've been hurt by it, it's just coming over as insensitive in the extreme.

I don't mean those people whose own rapes/abuse are not important to them - I mean those people who act as though other people's are. If you don't think this applies to you, it probably doesn't, and I'm glad.

In solidarity, not from experience:No pity. No shame. No silence.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. When I saw the trolls there all my "do not feed the troll" experience went right away and I wanted to sweetly, subtly feed the troll a good dose of cyanide. This is what my post about television earlier today was um, not triggered, initiated sort of by. The whole thing about women being reduced to their genitals alone is just...well it's wrong, for a start, but unlike other wrong things like square windows in aeroplanes nobody's fixed it yet. Things like MTV just seem to make it worse with their shaved oiled arses all over the place. And gaaa and things.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

<nods> (actually, this post wasn't exactly triggered by the original post, but the triggers came at an appropriate time)