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FFS, just don’t read the comments. I noticed one bozo was actually asking for “evidence”. Like WTAF? The thread is entirely congruent with an attack by someone who knows to stop if there’s going to be any evidence. He goes for a “seduction”, not what sometimes gets called “rape rape” (ie: more aggravated assault which could result in bruising or other physical evidence which might convince police to press charges).
That’s what sticks out as believable to me: that the perp could argue “nothing happened”.
Which sounds like “anyone can make up anything”, but the point is, this isn’t court evidence. This is the sharing of lived experience.
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It’s a troll technique of feeding back information about related but different incidents then doing the turnaround thing like a street kid scam. But she saw through it fast, “I never said he was teacher then. Blocking you now byee!”.
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It is however, a good example of why women don’t come forward and don’t report. Because we know that’s what we’ll get for our efforts.
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woah Why is this not in the news?
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Oh, it’s okay… it’s only women… /s
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Live boys and dead girls faceoff: Harding and Kennedy 3 versus Clinton, Berlusconi, Nixon, Kennedy 1 etc. Guess who’s known for what?
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I dunno… I just know I’ll never get the same respect as people with testicles.
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I don’t face the same thing by a long shot.
I do think, and think I see in my workplace (our customers are the biggest names in tech, so business ethics is customer-driven, a very strange situation compared to usual factory-equipment-manufacturing-sector laziness sizzle over steak), something beyond the grudging acceptance of women in the workplace. Maybe I see only the rose tint.
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This piece starts out about sexual abuse/assault in the Catholic church, but ties it to so many other times that society’s first reaction to learning about something gigantically monstrous is to blame the victims for not presenting the problem ‘correctly’:
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I’m glad to see something positive being said about O’Connor too. I remember as a young girl watching the whole thing I could not quite get over the inability of adults to explain to me what exactly she had done that was so wrong that it was worse than raping little kids. I related to her a lot in that moment and thought “that’s where bravery gets you when it isn’t convenient for others.” I figured she must have also known that, and so I admired her for it actually. But I was just a child and who cares what children have to say about abuse.
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My family are nominally Catholic but not terribly Papist, and the general take was, “meh, if she wants to protest the Pope, it’s like protesting any political leader.”
We’ve never truly bought into the whole infallibility thing.
I’m kind of surprised the condemnation was so absolute in some circles.
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In ither words, this would be the Book of Kells?
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Wow.
I had to double-check to ensure that wasn’t a paraphrase, because “grace” and “disgrace” mean something entirely different in a religious sense than a conventional sense.
If that’s a deliberate word-choice, she’s saying that the Catholic Church has fallen so far as to no longer receive the favour and assistance of God, because of the abuse. Which is a profound condemnation.
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