#so i'm employed now guys...yeah...

Actually- it's SO unsettling seeing people turn genuine movies about human reality on forcing love, SA, etc into these "cool, scary, shocking, gore" movie scenes or clips...I'm sorry to say that SA/Psychological distress awareness goes far beyond only watching movies.

I do wonder if anyone would empathize with Wish!Nikki or someone who acts like her if she wasn't a fictional character where her backstory, her thoughts, and her whole life were already narrated to the audience from beginning. It's a harsh thought, but I wonder if anybody would empathize with her or someone who acts like her if she was a REAL person who you knew NOTHING about except for the fact that she is your neighbor downtown who you pass by occasionally.

The reason people sympathize more with fictional characters than real people is because we already know a fictional character's backstory, internal dialogue, motives, etc. We are not given this information when interacting with a real person do we...?

And I'm saying this out of fear. I have seen people around me, and I have seen and SA cases where people don't actually even sympathize with survivors/victims. Yes, it happens. Yes, it's a harsh reality that's not as easy to process as a movie, book, or media.

You know what, I'm going to say it- IT'S SCARY AS HELL for people to consume actual medias about SA/psychological distress ONLY for them to think that the process of defending a survivor/victim and bringing them to justice is an easy process. Words are easy, but making sure survivors don't get retraumatized or further harmed is not as easy as sympathizing with a fictional character. I'm sorry to say this but as someone who received psychological first aid training, it's true. YES you have to defend survivors/victims. NO the process of protecting them, revisiting their support needs, and bringing them justice IS NOT AS EASY as sympathizing over a fictional character.

I feel reminded of that one time an activist from my country, Aurelie Moeremans, wrote a book about being groomed and SAd only for SOME people to treat the book as a MERE "trending sad book" to read and move on from.