So, just to be explicitly, totally clear about this: you’re a mental health professional, who has undergone training, works with vulnerable people, and presumably has also been educated in the ethics of their professional role. Someone is telling you that they are an abuse survivor, and your response is to snarkily…
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I haven’t said he was traumatized or that he had PTSD. I said it seems likely to me that his father’s statement was an attempt, presumably with advice, to get symptoms of trauma on the table, so that his lawyer could point to these symptoms and make an argument on their basis.
You’re right. The comment didn’t refer to rapists, but the fathers who defend them. I stand corrected.
I am not a lawyer though I have studied philosophy of law, which is what I said. I am a sexual assault survivor, and have said so, and you insisting I’m not is absolutely disgusting.
Digging how? I have said I think his father’s statement was terrible, but that it’s possible someone could be traumatized by the experience of being arrested for a sex crime, tried for that crime, facing the oncoming freight train of a prison sentence and all that might possibly entail, and becoming literally world…
What have I attempted to justify about this rapist? I think he should be in prison.
Democrats, Republicans, moderates, and people in all other walks of life commit acts of abuse and make excuses for acts of abuse. It is a society wide problem; not a demographic one.
Yes, but then you keep on writing. Literally, I am asking you not to, and hope you will be respectful of that.
Sane people do bad things every day. Mental health and morality are not the same thing. I am stunned you’re still flogging this horse, and I would ask that you stop contacting me.
In this very thread people are saying he categorically hasn’t experienced trauma. It’s not an assumption. It also not a lecture. It’s a conversation.
Wrong. The act of committing rape willingly and knowingly = person is fucking mentally ill.
Haha, I do realize people can read my comments, yes. I’m unconcerned about it, given that I feel I’ve been entirely consistent.
Not at all, as what you wrote didn’t contradict what I said, except that part about “everyone” having understood Turner’s Dad’s meaning. I don’t think everyone understood it.
Haha, no I actually haven’t. I moved onto other conversations, but I’m perfectly happy to read it. If it schools me then I’m in luck.
Yeah, man, I agree.
I still haven’t read it. The conversation moved on and I have a lot of replies and other things to do. Is it good? Should I?
Almost certainly not.
How gracious.
What behavior have I excused?