The silence from mainstream women’s orgs about this is deafening. Are they all going to sit there and pretend that ‘challenging’ women on their ‘bigotry’ when accessing a rape crisis centre & requesting a woman is ok? That asking a rape victim to ‘reframe their trauma’ is ok?
https://twitter.com/DrJessTaylor/status/1425009284614610949
The more I think about this the more angry I get. I was made to 're-frame my trauma' as somehow being my fault because, in the words of the policeman we called, 'victims and abusers chose each other from across a crowded room'. I was made to feel that I was responsible..
...and was somehow inevitably going to end up at that point because of MY OWN PERSONALITY. To suggest women asking for women when in active trauma should be 'educated' and made to 'check their privilege' is abhorrent. Therapy is NEVER political - as suggested in the exchange.
I spent YEARS making excuses for his behaviour: taking the blame for it, looking at every single thing I did, thought, believed, felt & knew to be real and reexamining all of it. It took women & feminism, to make me fully see that it was not on me.
And now mainstream 'feminism' is staying silent whilst women are roaring in pain & fury - but sure, we're the bigots. 😡😡
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