A message especially for my Canadian male followers out there today, but it applies to all.
If you see a story from a woman calling out the behaviour of a man, believe them. Yes, believe them over the 'bro’, especially when there are multiple corroborating stories.
Don’t feign impartiality.
Don't ignore.
Just believe them, it's not that hard.
It's long past time we do this as the default.
It will make us all better in the long run.
That is all.
Privileging the veracity of one sex over the other is just incredibly dangerous. And this in a world rife with Pam Bondis and Laura Loomers.
Yes, take accusations seriously. Investigate. Try them in court. But to advocate for automatic guilty verdicts simply because "a woman" is pointing a finger at someone else is no "better" than sex-swapped Salem witch trials.
"Men can never be trusted but women always can" is the distillation here and that is nothing but performative nonsense.
@kitkat_blue you're right. So why have we been privileging the male sex over others for the past god-knows-how-long?
I'm not advocating automatic guilt of any sort, and you know this. I am urging people to believe victims over those who employ common patterns of behaviour to claim innocence and deflect.
That could be any combination of male, female, transgender, or any other classification you choose. But in this specific case, and in a very very large number of cases in our society today, the dynamic is:
(often white but not exclusively) male vs. multiple women.
But I suspect you know this and you are simply saying what you always say to people who raise this point because you don't like the fact that men are being called out.
I'm not here for it and won't put up with it.
You can choose to recant your statement and acknowledge that what I said is reasonable and that this is a recurring, serious problem in our society, or you can move on.
The ball is in your court.
No sex should be privileged over another.
And you cannot fix existing privilege by promoting privilege elsewhere.
Taking an accusation seriously (my position) is NOT the same as advocating "default belief" in the accusation (your words).
"don't like the fact that men are being called out"
Ok, that made me laugh! Ty!
I'm really sooo glad that there are men like you demonstrating that "not all men" disparage our claims of sexual abuse and rape. Thank you so much, Sir Knight! 🙄
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
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