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I don't usually say anything about politics here. This isn't really about politics, this is about crazy.
One cannot use words like "legitimate" or "illegitimate" in conjunction with describing that act. It just doesn't work that way. That's making up some weird sort of illogic that's supporting what's becoming known as "rape culture," the long-standing tradition of blaming the victim, which, as mentioned, is crazy.
To demand that a survivor continue to defend herself by telling her that she must name that act perpetrated against her somehow "legitimate" is another step down the crazy spiral. That's twisting a word to mean something it does not mean. That's an attempt to reprogram American minds to believe that one of the most reprehensible acts known to humankind is somehow sanctioned.
I mean, it's easy to get stuck on the whole throwing-science-and-common-sense-out-the-window-and-making-up-anything-to-hate-on-the-victim part of it. That pisses me off enough that it's taken me this long to be able to say anything without filling my screen with expletives.
But there is also a more insidious reprogramming of the language attempted here, and I'm sick enough of hearing all the things that "Oh, it's just something people say" that become reality before people realize what they're doing. Speech ties to thought. Thought ties to action.
Enough with the crazy.
One cannot use words like "legitimate" or "illegitimate" in conjunction with describing that act. It just doesn't work that way. That's making up some weird sort of illogic that's supporting what's becoming known as "rape culture," the long-standing tradition of blaming the victim, which, as mentioned, is crazy.
To demand that a survivor continue to defend herself by telling her that she must name that act perpetrated against her somehow "legitimate" is another step down the crazy spiral. That's twisting a word to mean something it does not mean. That's an attempt to reprogram American minds to believe that one of the most reprehensible acts known to humankind is somehow sanctioned.
I mean, it's easy to get stuck on the whole throwing-science-and-common-sense-out-the-window-and-making-up-anything-to-hate-on-the-victim part of it. That pisses me off enough that it's taken me this long to be able to say anything without filling my screen with expletives.
But there is also a more insidious reprogramming of the language attempted here, and I'm sick enough of hearing all the things that "Oh, it's just something people say" that become reality before people realize what they're doing. Speech ties to thought. Thought ties to action.
Enough with the crazy.