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ScarlettScarpetta said:
I am not she. There is nothing more annoying than when people talk about you like you can not read what you are saying..
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Why is it so threatening that someone does not agree with what the main theme of this thread is.
Gotcha. :wink:
In answer to your question, I find it threatening because:
1. Someone keeps insisting that the women are lying (1a. even though someone claims that isn't what they are saying despite the fact that there is irrefutable proof that that is in fact what someone is saying) without presenting any irrefutable evidence proving the women's claims are false. Yet at the same time someone demands irrefutable proof that the women are telling the truth.
I find double standards quite threatening.
2. Someone keeps insisting that the women are lying without presenting any logical explanation of why/how so many women of different ages, backgrounds, and geographical areas came up with the same basic story of being assaulted by BC, except for something along the lines of "they must be copycats."
Yet someone has presented no logical reason for these women to copy others' accounts.
3. Someone keeps questioning why none of the women reported the attacks to authorities, thereby refusing to acknowledge
a) the fact that some of them did;
b) the horrific realities of what humiliations and indignities sexual assault victims who did report their assaults suffered in previous decades, which were enough to make even the strongest victim think twice about reporting;
c) the trauma, denial, self-blaming, and shame, along with the multitude of other factors, that make sexual assault victims reluctant to report their assaults to authorities.
4. Someone keeps insisting that they won't believe the accusations without irrefutable proof yet refuses to specify what would constitute irrefutable proof in someone's mind.
5. Someone keeps insisting the accusations aren't believable without irrefutable proof, yet refuses to acknowledge that in the vast majority of sexual assault cases, there isn't such a thing as irrefutable proof.
6. Someone keeps insisting that Bill Cosby is just like any number of celebrities who have been the subject of multiple accusations of sexual assault that were later proven to be false, despite being unable to produce a single other example.
As a human being and thus, heaven forbid, a potential victim of sexual assault, I find it extremely threatening that someone would respond to my (or my friend's, or my mother's, or my aunt's, or my cousin's, or my mother-in-law's, or my niece's, or my friends' daughters') report of sexual assault in such dismissive, illogical, non-reasoning ways.
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7. Someone apparently cannot understand why attitudes like theirs toward victims have historically been part of the reason said victims have been reluctant to report their assaults to authorities.
