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submitted 6 months ago by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

The number of examples I have seen of people being told to shut up about their lived experiences with sexual abuse in the past 24 hours on this platform is deeply disturbing.

I am calling on y’all to take a deep breath and listen to women for once. There is a time and place for tone policing and it’s never the very minute a woman speaks up.

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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone has it correct. I do not disagree with the sentiment of that comment at face value but the comment and the discussion that follow constitute men talking over women expressing their lived experiences.

As a community and a society, there is certainly room for tone policing and discussing how best to express the terms of our oppression. But that discussion should never be forced in at the very moment a person or group has found the courage to speak their own stories, which is what happened there.

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