Thread. I've seen a couple friends sharing memes that assert that male victims of clergy #abuse are believed and supported, while female victims of assault by acquaintances are victim-blamed and not taken seriously.
Friends, it would be a big step forward if we all lived in that world. We don't.
In our desire to support all victims of #assault, let's not further gaslight the male and female victims of clergy sex abuse who struggled heroically and lost faith, health, relationships and lives down through the past decades...
...trying to get the #Church hierarchy to hear them and ordinary #Catholics to get our fingers out of our ears.
Victims of clergy abuse and acquaintance assault face the same problem: men with power (even the pathetic social power of a teenage football player) believe they can do no wrong, and too many of the rest of us would rather doubt what we see with our own eyes than disagree.
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