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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[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.