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One of the best things about advice giving is sharing resources and connecting with others offering support.
One of the worst is competitiveness and obstruction over advice giving where people want to promote themselves more than a cause and thus sideline others.
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One of the worst is competitiveness and obstruction over advice giving where people want to promote themselves more than a cause and thus sideline others.
#AgonyHour
It’s particularly acute when many raising awareness are doing so because of lived experiences. It’s frustrating when you feel your messages are not heard. And devastating when others in the same area you think will welcome you and amplify your work aim to block it and you instead
As an Agony Aunt I’m used to the competitiveness, cliqueyness and obstructions you find when working with charities and awareness groups. But folk new to this may be shocked to find barriers not collaboration. It extends to all areas of awareness raising and advice giving
With the discussions about T.I. policing his daughter's genitals in the news today I want to tell you what happens when young women, frightened of a virginity test, contact an advice column. Understandably it might upset you but please read if you can #AgonyHour
Young women email or write to advice columns/Agony Aunts because they either have been told they will be having a virginity test, or because they suspect it could happen. Or they are about to marry or get engaged or have their first intimate relationship #AgonyHour
What are they afraid of? That their bodies will be looked at by someone they don't know in a very invasive way. They fear it will hurt or they will be embarrassed. They aren't sure what to expect, so they have no idea if they can 'pass' the virginity test. #AgonyHour
