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.
See this comment, if you would.
That’s what I mean.
The real reaction from this person is “hey wait, a bear is literally going to kill you and I am not. Demonizing all men into being worse than bears is not invoking sympathy”.
You are taking an expression of fear and hurt and taking it personally. A tip: It’s not personal. Don’t take it personally. Listen, and then move on.
It doesn’t personally hurt me I’m just explaining why a message like this will not resonate with men that did not already resonate with it.
When a generalization is made a person will self-insert if they fit the group. In this case a man that does not believe they are more harmful than a bear will find it unjust they are painted as worse than a bear.