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genuinely nothing makes my blood boil quite like "what if those men who claimed their girlfriends/wives were the real abuser were actually being truthful, or at least it was a mutual abuse situation". as if most women victimized by men haven't had "you're the one abusing me" rhetoric spit at them by their abusers.

there were a lot of problems 15 years back but the sheer misogyny and lack of class consciousness even in ostensibly "feminist" spaces really feels like it would have been unthinkable back then. there are women who consider themselves as "far left" who openly believe it's better to be constantly entertaining the idea that maybe a man who killed his wife was actually a misunderstood victim who was pushed too far by his wife because "men can be victims and women can be abusers too" than it is to admit that that's a basically unheard of statistical anomaly that is wildly outnumbered by the exact opposite, and already often assumed despite that as a result of systemic misogyny. idk if it's because they want to maintain some comforting delusion of things secretly being more equal than they actually are, or if it's just because they've become more misogynistic and woman-hating, but it's actually frightening either way.

the way that one of the main defenses i heard in response to pushback against the anti-heard narrative was "but i know some guys this happened to" really reflects on the direction public perception on the way that gender and abuse relate to one another. people are spending more and more time derailing conversations about the way that abuse is a gendered issue in which men are largely the most common and most dangerous perpetrators by a landslide, and women and girls are the most frequently and intensely victimized by bringing up extreme fringe cases, and ignoring the fact that claiming to be the real victim and that their partner is a "crazy bitch" is a well-documented strategy male abusers employ to maintain sympathy for themselves while continuing to abuse women who are trying to save themselves from them. they're also ignoring the fact that the legal system has always been and continues to be much harsher on women than men, even when the women's offenses are less severe, or that the legal system is fundamentally built on rules that perpetuate, or at least fail to account for, systemic abuse and oppression of women.

as much as i hate almost everything else about sv i have to admit "pecharunt" is a hilarious name for a pokemon universe evil momotaro

minior and mimikyu have fun gimmicks, it makes me sad that they ripped off and overpowered mimikyu's gimmick for that hideous penguin

the type coverage on isha's team is surprisingly good for someone who doesn't know anything about pokemon tbh

the team composition wasn't even intentionally type balanced i think i just have brain worms