Yes, VSMP is an allegory for being queer but I also desperately want to acknowledge it is also about types of assault, about coercion, about imperfect and reactive victimhood, about how isolation and ostracization can cause feelings of being dehumanized and abandonment within a victim of a trauma and how that can feed into a cycle of worsening mental and emotional quality, of how people award victims who they personally deem palatable but can often turn away from victims they find too much work or too difficult, of being both perpetrator and victim and how being a victim doesn't excuse you being a perpetrator of violence but also being a perpetrator of violence shouldn't discount you being a victim, of how trauma can both change and also be stored in someone's body, of the importance of caring for others in their states of need and pain, of purposefully trying to withdraw and isolate from others in hopes of sparing them harm or annoyance by your existence in proximity as a wounded and hurt person, of trauma bonding and finding comfort in the hurt
