LadyPact
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Trigger warning Meet ‘Generation Snowflake’ – the hysterical young women who can’t cope with being offended
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1254262/meet-generation-snowflake-the-hysterical-modern-kids-who-cant-cope-with-being-offended/
The modern face of feminism...which should be renamed, totalitarianism.
Yet, their opinions that bother others are totally allowed of course.
OK. I'll be fair. (Believe it or not, I do actually read the links you post when it's not some video of people shouting or certain types of music.) You want somebody to address the article. That's fair and I'm willing to do it.
Do I happen to agree that the worst thing in life is sexual assault? No. I happen to think the worst thing in life is one's own death. There's no recovery from your own death, no potential healing process, you don't wake up the next day so it will get better. I could be entirely wrong about an afterlife, so dead could really mean dead.
So, let's say there's death, and then an individual figures out, for themselves, what makes a close second. I'm about to disappoint some people by paraphrasing Orwell's "1984":
"What is in Room 101?"
"The worst thing in the world."
"What is that."
"It's different for everybody."
This is where the hypothesizing begins for a lot of people. I had a front row seat growing up about how devastating it is for parents to have to bury one of their children. The fact that people who have suffered that loss even get out of bed every day have my admiration. I have serious doubts that I have that kind of strength. To date, I've been fortunate enough not to have to find out. OP, I have no idea if you would think that is a close second at this time because right now, if I recall correctly, that's not in your realm of possibilities.
I'm sorry to have to say this because it's not that I dislike you as a person. It's awfully tempting to draw the conclusion that there are certain areas where you think some instances happen, such as sexual assault, that once the act is over, that's it. We really do know, from a psychological standpoint, that's not a universal reaction. A person's still alive but they still deal with a mental and emotional reaction for whatever period of time it takes them.
I made a really bad remark on another thread regarding triggering other people. Something to the tune of "I wouldn't walk into the VA and light up a pocket full of firecrackers, either." It wasn't the nicest way to put it, but I stand by the point. I figure my chances would be pretty good at triggering someone's PTSD. We also know that PTSD can develop in victims of other traumatic experiences such as DV, sexual assault, violent non sexual physical assault, some stalking targets, near death circumstances, and a bunch of other stuff. I think it would be challenging to debate that established fact.
The writer of your linked article specifically said this: "“Their reaction shocked me. I take no pleasure in making teenagers cry, but it also brought home the contrast to previous generations of young people, who would have relished the chance to argue back." With no idea of how many of the teenagers in her audience *might* be undergoing the after effects of an assault, she figures they should argue with her?
I wrote all of that so I could agree with ML. There should be certain safe spaces for things like support groups, certain types of therapy, etc. If we want people to heal from anything we consider traumatic, isn't it reasonable to at least create some of those type of environments?
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