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My obscure COVID Consciousness Discourse pet peeve is that in the effort to underscore ongoing threat of the coronavirus there’s a bunch of weird flu denialism? Like “it’s not JUST another flu” when there’s no such thing as “just” flu. Flu kills thousands of people a year???

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

This shouldn't need to be said but a whole consequence of most rapes being perpetrated by someone known to the victim is victims often *like* their rapists, go to great lengths to protect them and downplay what they did, and feel hurt and confusion about the assault.

seems to be this misconception that people who have "trendy" disabilities are hypochondriacs / trend hopping for sympathy. the result is that most people in my life go "right, you have that TikTok thing allegedly 🙄" until i collapse in front of them, at which point they *begin* to reconsider.

trans people* can't write about ourselves because it's going to be objective and centering ourselves and needs, so we need a big strong cis** man to write about us for us *any marginalize group **it's always some cis white guy who wants to look like he's d i v e r se

I also believe in restorative justice but I don't think that means you get to become a pillar of a community and garner an audience and an income that relies solely on everyone including yourself staying silent about your actions. In the VIDEO GAME SPHERE no less.

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

AND we don't believe what happened to them. We paint other stories in our collective minds and conversations so WE don't have to reckon with what has actually happened. But when survivors do it in order to literally survive, we OF COURSE use it against them.

We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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