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sometimes you just have to be like “I do not deserve this regardless” instead of trying to analyze & understand

having to beg someone to do something with you and then seeing them do it with others willingly is a different kind of hurt

but harassing people who choose to do it, does not help victims, but only further stigmatizes and invalidates their experiences.

this attitude comes from the same mindset that i explained above. abuse is all real, serious and multifaceted, and no type of it should be dismissed or treated as a taboo. when it comes to fictional characters, whether to engage in these discussions or not is a personal choice+

it all depends on the situation and context, yet people are unfortunately getting harassed simply for mentioning sa in relation to characters. moreover, the mindset that powerscales and compares different types of abuse to each other isn't actually helping anyone. everyone+

want to analyze characters and stories from the perspective of sexual abuse. instead of harassing and silencing people, it's better to just mute/block them when they aren't doing anything actually harmful, and interpreting something as sexual abuse is not inherently harmful.+

avoiding these interpretations and wanting to engage with them is valid, because all victims have their own unique experiences. not to mention that a person doesn't owe anyone details about their trauma, no one is obligated to disclose that they are a victim just because they+

someone associates a character you like with sa (especially when it's a personal trauma), it's not a reason to harass other people, especially because the people in questions might be victims themselves. there isn't a "one true way" in which victims react to abuse, so both+

allegory for it), or talk about how certain other characters are similar to their abusers in some way(s), but these discussions are instantly shut down because people don't want their favs to be associated with the topic of sa. while it's understandable to be uncomfortable when+

abuse in an "inappropriate" context (when its actually completely appropriate). the examples of it would be victims of sexual abuse using characters to talk about their experiences, explaining how they relate to them and how their experiences can be interpreted as sa (or an+

sexual abuse is a taboo, and can only be brought up in exceptional cases. it makes victims doubt the reality, severity and validity of their experiences; it makes it harder to open up about what their abusers did; and it encourages harassment against people who bring up sexual+

mindset clearly shows that people have a certain hierarchy of severity of abuse in their mind, with rape on top and everything else being seen as "less bad". this mindset harms victims of both sexual and non-sexual abuse in a number of ways. it reinforces the harmful notion that+

any atrocity that they commit isn't seen as serious and real enough until it includes sexual abuse. a villain can do anything terrible, but only when they commit rape they are seen as too evil, and being their fan (while not being a defender) is seen as a moral failing. this+

of it. people have conscious or subconscious biases where they would see rape as the most "serious and real" type of abuse, while everything else is treated as "not that bad" or "too rare/fictional". even if the person claims that they recognize that their fav villain is evil,+

character is capable of commiting sa (without even claiming that it actually happened), these ideas are instantly rejected and the people are blamed for "making everything about rape". but i think the way people treat sexual abuse is different from the way they treat other types+

allegory for sexual assault is instantly getting harassed and blamed for "making false accusations" against their fav characters, despite the fact that an allegory isnt literal and no one is claiming that the interpretation is canon. then when anyone suggests that a villainous+

tw sexual abuse i think the way people negatively react towards any discussions of sexual abuse in relation to fictional characters shows a very prevalent anti-victim mentality and people's tendency to "powerscale" abuse. anyone who says that something can be read as an+

This is my contribution to the #sfawtde/#dawtde fandom

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