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Witches VS Patriarchy

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[โ€“] Jinarched@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Agreed.

I am a man and I am a victim of repeated child sexual abuse. It has broken me forever. While I don't feel comfortable explaining what effects it had on me, let's say that I'll never be a normal functioning person because of what was done to me.

To what you said I would like to add that some of us are victims too and being generalized and then labeled as rapists or apologists is so fucking triggering, it's actually madening. The idea of being associated with my perpetrator is intolerable.

I get it that sexual misconducts are more prevalent in men, but something like 1 in 6 boys will experience some sort of sexual abuse. That is a shitton of victims being labeled as rapist apologists.

Anyways, like you, I think we can have this discussion without aggressively accusing all members of a given gender.

Especially lately with all the Epstein stuff being discussed, I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling trapped in a constant spiral of flashbacks and stuck in a non-stop dissociated state especially that there is no accountability in sight.

In any cases, let's have compassion for all the victims no matter their gender or sex and let's focus our anger toward the abusers.

[โ€“] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

I don't think it's possible for me to agree with you more.

I will only add the I empathize with you and all of the other victims regardless of gender. Please know that you are valued for who you are, not what has happened to you.

Be well.