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Do you think I care at this point?
We've already done this dance many times before, minorkeys.
That you're still engaging suggests some part of you does, yes. You're a banger of a commenter and can often be a benefit to the conversation but...you're kind of rough when anyone disagrees or pushes back against you.
When the pushback is over rape and believing victims, yeah, I'm gonna get kinda rough about it.
I still engage because I've got ADHD and about five millions thoughts in my head at any given moment, plus I'm quick witted and have strong justice sensitivity. And I've seen some of the views that are supported here (about willing and consensual 14 year olds to be exact). So yeah, I can be rough.
Women don't have to be sweet.
Does it actually help anything, though? If you hurt people, they just learn to avoid you, you don't change their minds. I'll stop engaging with you, if you'd prefer that. I don't want you to be engaging simply because you can't not.
It helps heal the decades where I was taught to be silent and subservient to men, that women should be seen and not heard, and that my opinion has no value or place in public. I do this for me, not to change your mind.
This is something I choose to do. I enjoy trolling back rape apologists and being stubborn in the face of vitriol for being an outspoken woman. I enjoy making this place more welcoming to other women and minorities.
I am not a product of you.
Well you have a pretty strong incentive to see people as rape apologists, then. Hurt people hurt people, I guess. I don't want to end up a victim of yours or help you hurt others to heal, so I'll just stop engaging. Good luck with your healing.
Accusing someone of having "a pretty strong incentive to see people as rape apologists" after they gave you >4 opportunities to clarify your earlier comment in the ensuing downstream comments is such an on-the-nose example of DARVO trolling that you can't expect anyone to believe you're making anything that resembles a good-faith argument.
Accusing? That's a pretty negative interpretation. It's just a reasonable hypothesis from what Velma explained of her life, which seems to relate directly to how my words were mis-interpreted through the lens of that preexisting bias. She did not deny it or even comment about it. So maybe yes and maybe no.
If there wasn't so much hostility right from the start, hostility bourn possibly from that bias, I would have been more open to clarifying dialogue and continued. Velma, and you, don't feel like safe people to do that with. You just add more hostility, that doesn't signal that you're here for clarity or understanding so I'm not going to feed that hostility.
Considering some of the views you’ve left on my posts, I welcome the lack of engagement.