this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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The number of examples I have seen of people being told to shut up about their lived experiences with sexual abuse in the past 24 hours on this platform is deeply disturbing.

I am calling on y’all to take a deep breath and listen to women for once. There is a time and place for tone policing and it’s never the very minute a woman speaks up.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

None of the situations I was talking about involved direct replies to women talking about their own experiences.

Okay well that’s literally the topic of this post. So you are butting in with irrelevant commentary a bit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Commentary isn't irrelevant just because it's not the exact same thing that you said. Exploring related questions/scenarios is half the point of a good discussion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Valid! I encourage you to pop over to this post I made instead perhaps. It already has some rich discussion going on about exactly the concerns you are voicing here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! Will check it out. I salute your efforts to spread awareness about lemmy stifling SA talk.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Uhhhhh they deleted the post which is very disheartening because there was genuinely really positive discussion going on. 🙁 Here is a reposted version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks again :D