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the nature of rape being a taboo topic that nobody wants to talk about is that people will tell you point blank to your face that people like you don’t experience trauma or violence of any kind, you will explain the trauma and violence that you have experienced for being the kind of person that you are, and then they’ll “call you out” for trauma dumping while not changing their position at all.
denying the pain that a class of people experience will get hundreds upon thousands of notes, while those same people describing their pain will be avoided because their pain is inconvenient or uncomfortable, only to be spoken of in hushed voices in the dark.
“I don’t talk about that kind of thing,” “that isn’t what I want on my blog,” “that’s inappropriate.”
we shamelessly deny the lived experiences of other people while not being able to handle the reality of those experiences. appointing ourselves as experts on things that we refuse to say out loud. and this is rewarded over and over and over again.
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