To Be A Little More Specific...

[poliphilo]

 I understand that everyone over a certain age has been complicit in the culture of sexual harassment and it's only human to want to minimise one's guilt but I'd like to say to all my contemporaries who are arguing that it wasn't so bad really and the kids should grow a backbone that what they're doing is defending evil and a time will come when what they're saying will seem as grotesque as we find the arguments that were once advanced in defence of slavery.

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[cmcmck]

Although with stuff that happened fifty years ago and more (and as you know, I was abused and don't much like going there) we need to remember that that was then and this is now.

I find the idea of digging up the graves of abusers long dead to pee on their bones equally grotesque. Wasn't there a Pope they dug up and put on trial for heresy?

'The past is a foreign country- they do things differently there.'

[poliphilo]

Indeed. There's a lovely painting of him sitting there all rotten in his papal robes while his successor denounces him.

[athenais]

Hear him!

[sorenr]

I was raped back in 1989. When I hear that those who bring up assaults, harrassment et cetera from the ast should just move on it feels just a little bit like a new assault. It is a new person who tells me I don't have rights over my body and my feelings, just as the original rapist did through his actions.

So bloody hell! Scream, howl, cry out what happened. And I'm impressed by every woman - and man, though for obvious reasons it's mainly women - that has the guts to step forward and say "yes, this happened to me too". I don't think I'd ever dare do that in any public setting.

Sorry. This is obviously personal for me, so I find it hard to be dispassionate about it.

[poliphilo]

You have every right to your anger. By making a noise we're creating a new world- one in which it'll be the abusers and not their victims who feel unsafe.