not to discourse on this late morning, but if youâre celebrating the defunding of a rape crisis shelter There Is Something Wrong With You.
The money will go to people who are not TERFs. I think thatâs fine.
the money was funding a center for vulnerable women who had experienced sexual violence.
Yeah, and there are other organizations that are doing the same all the while not rejecting trans women from volunteering with them, thus being more helpful to all women. So, not getting your point.
many female rape victims are triggered by male bodies and have severe PTSD. they need and deserve a space to heal away from males. whatâs your solution for these women? get over it?Â
This is the ONLY one that doesnât include transwomen. How many fucking shelters do you need access to??
Itâs the oldest one in Vancouver, and was the very first rape crisis center in Canada. Started in 1973 by those âawfulâ second-wave feminists. By themselves, for women like them. Why? BECAUSE THERE WAS A DIRE NEED FOR A WOMENâS RAPE CRISIS CENTER. So they did it. Now you want to take that away from them because the cultural winds changed? Thereâs no need for a rape crisis center for biological women only?
Must be nice to be so privileged that you can sit in your armchair, play the politics of fashionable purity and destroy an important feminist legacy. These people are absolutely despicable.
I was robbed at gunpoint on three different occasions by two black guys and a Mexican. To this day, over a decade after those robberies, if anyone so much as LOOKS like they could be hiding a gun, either by the way their shirt covers up their pants, or the way they hold themselves, i feel panic welling up inside me. If Iâm at the gas station and the person in front of me pays with cash, regardless of what they look like, my heart leaps up into my throat and my mind immediately goes to âthis place is about to get robbed.â My psychiatrist has told me repeatedly over the last two years that i need extensive trauma therapy before i can even THINK about getting a regular job again, because my anxiety is so high from the PTSD. Donât even get me started on my agoraphobia. Two years of therapy before i could even go out in public without having a complete meltdown.
Whatâs your proposed solution to this problem? Have every Mexican and black person move out of my neighborhood? Yeah thatâs not racist at all. Dictate what people wear and how they carry themselves? Pass laws that make paying with cash illegal?
I mean, Iâve got wounds from these robberies that have been festering since March of 2007, i need to heal, too. Should i just do away with everything around me that triggers the anxiety, the memories, at the detriment of others? That doesnât seem like a viable solution.
Avoidance is in fact a toxic coping mechanism that creates a feedback loop which exacerbates the anxiety. No, these women donât need to be locked away from the world to curl up and die. They need to learn to process what happened to them and find a way to learn to live again.
Must be nice to be so privileged that you can dictate how the world around you works. As it stands nobody gives a fuck that i repeatedly had guns held up to my face and the last robber held me and my assistant manager hostage. I was told to get over it after a fucking hour passed. At least y'all have shelters.
Congratulations @butiwalkthemissionaryway on your Bad fucking take. You literally have no idea what a crisis center is or how they work. Itâs not a secret base where traumatized women go to hide away and avoid the world and never seek therapy or health care and just sit in corners crying.
The fact you are trying to use your own struggles to somehow justify why raped women are âprivilegedâ and should just let any male have direct access to them after rape just makes this even more disgusting. Find some empathy. Learn about what crisis centers, any crisis center does before telling raped women they should suck it and stop being traumatized because you once were attacked and did
