A snarky and bitter part of me wants to note the violence against women is hardy new. Its centuries old and not going away. If it has failed to destroy humanity in those centuries, it will likely fail in future. In fact it almost definitely won't destroy the species. Basis of violence against women is that there are dudely folk in power doin' shit. I'm of the opinion most folk in power dudely or otherwise don't want total human destruction, that wouldn't serve their needs t'all. N'they have the power to serve their needs, f'the most part.
Blllllaaaaaaah. Moods, moods. Hope your day at work went well.
I was similarly disturbed by the news of the video of the 8 year old. Spent the night thinking about how many children and women are going through these things, and the mindset of those committing the crimes... and how can we possibly stop it?
Fighting isn't useless. Success, once gained, can last for hundreds of years. The fight to stop this kind of violence will always be a continuous one though, just like weeding your garden. As time goes by, new perpetrators come into being, as do new victims. The challenge is finding a method to discover these crimes before they come into being, or at least to discover them at all.
Even though I personally feel that freezing all the 12-29 year old males would be too harsh, it would certainly go a long way to preventing a lot of crimes.
I never replied to you at the time, because like, emotions are powerful and all.
But I have this ((possibly incorrect)) assumption that if you'd spent the nioght thinking about things, going through that awful train of thoughts for hours, and actively trying to think of solutions, then you must have been through shit. Because i think "normal" people don't do this and I fucking know that the rape and sexual abuse of women is actually _really, really_ common, and I can look at social demographics and the few conversations we've had, and I'm having a hard time _not_ seeing you as a victim/survivor. ((Whichever you prefer.)) This feels so presumptuous, but correct me if I'm wrong.
"Fighting isn't useless. Success, once gained, can last for hundreds of years." - This comment you made, has been really helpful to me actually. In times when I get hopeless I actively think back to it. So, thank you.
I'm really, really glad that I gave you something to help you realise the fighting isn't worthless. Could you imagine what the world would be like if everyone, including yourself, supported those activities
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Well, its good to hear you've only had one negative experience and that in your subjective experience it wasn't that bad and you'd not call yourself a victim. Thats good to hear!
Wow, I hear ya. I really do. I feel the same way. It's horrific, the way we are expected to go la ti da and live our lives and "be happy" when we KNOW, we fucking KNOW that kids are being raped, men are beating women, terrorizing families, etc etc etc. I don't know how to just walk around in a world like this. Other people seem to not even notice.
It's not horrible to think awful things in your head. We've all been brainwashed like that. When I'm mad at a woman, the first word that pops into my head is "bitch." GRRRRRR- why!!!!!!
I know its social training and all, I just wish I didn't. I've cleared up a lot of my baggage, things that used to pop into my head don't anymore because of the conscious effort I've put in and I just hate it when there's terrible that still lingers. Its like, this is my head. Please to be a patriarchy free zone! Only it isn't.
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Blllllaaaaaaah. Moods, moods. Hope your day at work went well.
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Fighting isn't useless. Success, once gained, can last for hundreds of years. The fight to stop this kind of violence will always be a continuous one though, just like weeding your garden. As time goes by, new perpetrators come into being, as do new victims. The challenge is finding a method to discover these crimes before they come into being, or at least to discover them at all.
Even though I personally feel that freezing all the 12-29 year old males would be too harsh, it would certainly go a long way to preventing a lot of crimes.
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But I have this ((possibly incorrect)) assumption that if you'd spent the nioght thinking about things, going through that awful train of thoughts for hours, and actively trying to think of solutions, then you must have been through shit. Because i think "normal" people don't do this and I fucking know that the rape and sexual abuse of women is actually _really, really_ common, and I can look at social demographics and the few conversations we've had, and I'm having a hard time _not_ seeing you as a victim/survivor. ((Whichever you prefer.)) This feels so presumptuous, but correct me if I'm wrong.
"Fighting isn't useless. Success, once gained, can last for hundreds of years." - This comment you made, has been really helpful to me actually. In times when I get hopeless I actively think back to it. So, thank you.
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It's not horrible to think awful things in your head. We've all been brainwashed like that. When I'm mad at a woman, the first word that pops into my head is "bitch." GRRRRRR- why!!!!!!
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