“I believed that if I came forward, my voice would be drowned out by a chorus...."
To the cis men that are having difficulty understanding this, it isn't about you being unjustly accused and it isn't about all men being painted with the same broad brush and it isn't about deflecting criticism because "women abuse men, too."
It is about your failure to confront your own belief systems, opinions and attitudes, failure to confront abusive peers and failure to overcome your own silence.
It is about your failure to demonstrate empathy and solidarity with your fellow humans and, instead, zeroing in on how the victim supposedly has enabled their own victimization instead of holding the perpetrator accountable.
I believe that it's men who need to speak out and everyone who deflects the conversation or shift the blame is complicit. The response prior to mine exemplifies this behavior perfectly.
EDIT: I guess I should add indifference to the list of complicit behaviors.
I guess a narrow, simplified version of history is more suitable to the SJW mentality along with virtue-signallers. SJW beliefs seem to trump facts and always create a fascist response to attempts to understand our society in an objective way. Flag-waving, mansplaining, judgemental and condemnatory statements like those posted above just seem to imply a neurotic personality unable to handle a different opinion.
I guess you have nothing after all!
This post comfortably omits the fact that societies in general swept crimes under the carpet and women were often the most severe in their treatment of other women.
Which in no way justifies anything or even contributes to a meaningful discussion, but if it makes you feel better, by all means continue to deflect.
sorry, was the post supposed to cover all bases? i think the poster was making her (quite valid) point, not making all possible points. but now that you've brought it up, there is that perpetual myth that women naturally hate other women and will climb all over each other to get ahead. myth it is, despite there being examples of it (there are examples of lots of crap, if you look for it, but those examples don't make the generality true). if any portion of what you've said is true, consider who was in power to control what women did or did not do, or did or did not feel they HAD to do, not to be completely suffocated. ALL of that notwithstanding, how does any of it, real or imagined, justify victim-blaming?
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The post was not written to justify anything, rather to try to understand it. That interpretation was misapplied by the other person. The comment about women's maltreatment of women is a historical truth and not a myth. The fact that men ruled societies in no way excuses the unjust behaviour of women.
To the cis men...
It isn't about all men...'
Guilty men can suck it up. The idea that all white men should suck it up is preposterous.
Very well put! I agree.
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