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In reply to the discussion: Let's talk about sexism on DU [View all]thucythucy
(9,042 posts)As a rape survivor, it's so empowering for me to see how you handled this!
What happened to you was abuse, sexual abuse, and that's a fact. To say, as some here have, that in responding to that abuse you should have first used "the proper channels" -- rather than gone public with the evidence of what happened -- is just so fucking typical of how abuse survivors are expected to "make nice" in the face of the most vile attacks. And then, to cap it off, we often also then get blamed for "not resisting"--not making a big ENOUGH stink about it. It's a vortex of contradictory, mutually exclusive, mind-bending social bullshit around sexual violence that has helped to perpetuate the same evil shit for millennia.
Kudos to you for having the guts, the insight, the clarity of thought to do precisely the right thing here--expose the perpetrator, hold him accountable, and then, also, to educate the community, and thus make at least this little corner of the net a better and (hopefully) safer place for all of us.
You represent absolutely the best DU has to offer. Carry on, and my sympathy and condolences for the abuse you were forced to endure.