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-uncle2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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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I brought it up because people are demonizing an emotional abuse victims for calling out an abuser, not to "deflect" from anything
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Intentionally distributing a callout to groups that you know have stalked and harassed your abuser is actually also abusive.
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it certainly is, Ollie! but did you notice that you literally couldn't acknowledge the idea without whatabouting?
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The point is that he isn't being "demonized for a callout" -- that's a dishonest framing
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