I mean there are photos but ok
what level of statistical prevalence is necessary before somebody's life experience becomes valid for them to talk about?
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None. But again, many people talking about this issue aren't doing so out of personal experience.
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If the people talking about it were the people experiencing it, then it *would* be proportional.

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okay, but i don't see how it's relevant; clearly
@HatredIsMyMuse isn't talking about something he read in an email forward from his anti-women's-suffrage great-uncle -
bringing it up here is tantamount to an assertion that the people who do have the life experience need to shut up in order to compensate for the people who are talking about it without the life experience
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No, it really isn't. "But women can be abusive too" is a really common deflection tactic when a man is accused of abuse.
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And in that situation, it's a deflection even if the person doing so has experienced abuse from a woman.
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I know someone who went to prison because of a false allegation of sexual assault. (Later recanted, but it didn't get him out of prison.) You know when he doesn't bring that up? When people are talking about being victims of assault.
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