Follow
Current events; sexual assault and coercion
@cassolotl@cybre.space fwiw I struggle with it too. I've never been overtly sexually assaulted or harassed... no, I can't say that, but the situations were relatively mild, and my reactions have generally been scary enough that they didn't go farther and weren't repeated. (one twit rather gratifyingly fell down a flight of stairs backwards to get away from my reaction; I still treasure that memory.)
Current events; sexual assault and coercion
@cassolotl@cybre.space but I feel like... despite all the things I've done to prevent the "stranger danger" kind of assault, I've been so vulnerable for much of my life to much more insidious emotional assault tactics, in part because most people rarely count them as "abuse" or "assault"--despite the fact that they can be just as damaging in the long run.