asheton.bsky.social
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Nonbinary transmasc Latino trying to escape my abuser. Exvangelical. hEDS/disabled. CPTSD. Leftist. Artist. Humanist. Stay woke.
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Children are being sexually abused, in homes across the country. We know urgent changes are needed. We know there is a need for improved training for professionals to identify and respond to abuse, alongside increased funding for prevention, intervention, and support services. 10/
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Been there. "They're too young to remember," my ass. The body always remembers.
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This is a #heds mood lmao
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Dear perpetrators: childhood is short and children won’t stay silent for ever. Someday, your crimes will catch up with you.
#CSA
#TheFlyingChildStory
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I think the concern is that predators use that as an excuse to offend. They believe it isn’t harmful, and some believe they are benefitting the child. I understand where you are coming from-that framing the damage is also damaging. People don’t want to excuse or downplay the harm for predators.
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No, we can't scare them out of what they want to do, but we sure can amplify their rhetoric so that they have something to point to when they're grooming a child. It happened to me, and I've heard of others who've been through similar grooming, but society isn't ready to talk about that just yet 🤷♂️
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Instead, we can advocate for abuse to be treated like any violent crime: if you get assaulted, your pain & grief is acknowledged, you are given tools to heal, and given space to BE healed. 5/5
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Predators have an ideology that they use to gain trust, and this is a huge point in it. It was drilled into my head by my abuser when I was a teenager. This is not a useful framework for survivors, because it gives them exactly what they want: the ability to minimize what they do. 4/?
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I'm not discounting the harm the adults in your life did after the fact. If society had the maturity to treat CSA like any other act of traumatic violence, the world would be a healthier place. But it is an act of violence, and it's not appropriate to try to assign any other "meaning" to it. 3/?
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I'm super glad for the small percentage of children who don't end up significantly traumatized from CSA, truly. And adults are shit at navigating this issue around survivors because of the taboo we assign to survivors, not because the act isn't harmful. 2/?
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This is the "secondary harm" argument that pedophiles use to justify abuse. Not accusing you, just pointing it out. 1/?
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Gisèle Pelicot is a hero, a sliver of hope amidst horror. Stories like hers, and Prajwal Revanna's case, unsettle us because they lay bare the world's brutal reality. Yet, we must face them daily—so there's no room to forget.
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We can honor her courage by continuing to share her message. #ShameMustChangeSides