As a POC -this is offensive - “already-empowered white middle class women”? Do we really want to rate women’s suffering like this? Abused white women shouldn’t be disregarded in this conversation. Empowered is not a word I would use for anyone experiencing FDV or sexual violence
https://twitter.com/adelepurrsisted/status/1435516978429530112
Some of my white middle-class employed patients have experienced strangulation, brain-damage, electrocution, rape as infants, tied up for days, whipped, held under water, multiple fractures- amongst many other types of trauma. It’s not OK to disregard this entire population.
When a human body is treated this way - it doesn’t matter what colour her skin is. The trauma reaction is biological and does not discriminate.
Family violence is ALL about the deliberate obliteration of power and control. It’s nonsense to think an abused woman is somehow immune to disempowerment because of her colour.
“Know their rights” really? They have had all their rights stripped of them.
Let’s be clear - knowing your rights does not stop abuse.
Domestic abusers operate by finding ways to hurt their victim IN SPITE of their rights. That’s the point. They disempower by evading all laws.
Let’s be clear - knowing your rights does not stop abuse.
Domestic abusers operate by finding ways to hurt their victim IN SPITE of their rights. That’s the point. They disempower by evading all laws.
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