fluffyswitch
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ORIGINAL: fluffyswitch i swear there's a paper in this somewhere...lol. This is telling. Your primary relation to trauma is verbal, so you are worried about words triggering someone's breakdown. When I read Letters from a War Zone, my response to it was "Yeah, so...?" because I had already been caring for women with PTSD flashbacks since before I was 18 years old. Sheltered people from upper middle class backgrounds are impressed by Dworkin because she had a hard life and she's got a good mind. The best posters on this site have had a hard life and have a good mind. Posters on this very thread have been raped, sometimes multiple times. I'm not glad it happened, but their ability to move beyond such experiences is part of why they can write well and genuinely help others. I've taught undocumented, illiterate immigrant women how to read. I've done legal advocacy and, for example, won a woman $3,000 and a job reinstatement after she was fired from waitressing because she got pregnant. Meanwhile, you're reading theory and writing papers. People are extremely strong and resilient. I consider women to be people. Words hurt, but there are other things that hurt far, far more. If you have no personal experience about that, I am glad for you. Regardless of your own history, it is far more important to tell the truth -- whether respectfully or nastily -- than to be a polite liar. i never once made any implication about lying, and frankly you have no idea about what i have had happen to me outside of what i've posted on this board, as you have said. what if i had said that i've been in and out of therapy for the past ten years, in part for borderline verbal and emotional abuse? what difference would it have made to say that i was raised by two abuse survivors who in turn had to parent based off of that? what difference would it have to said that i've been assaulted twice? not a damn thing. i realize that you may not have intended to but you're attempting to place me in a box that may not be the right one for me and i never once made any suggestion about lying. so yes i'm writing papers. so yes i'm being educated. there is more than one form of advocacy out there, and just because i'm choosing as a feminist academic to attack the ivory tower doesn't make me any less worthy, especially considering you have no idea what that damn paper would even be about. i realize that this sort of harsh for a post that may have not been about that but unless there's a delete funciton on this thing i haven't found yet there it stands.
< Message edited by fluffyswitch -- 2/2/2008 8:34:25 AM >
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