I agree, the comments to the article are frightening and extremely charged. I enjoyed the article a lot and it spoke to certain challenges I've been facing as my girlfriend has been transitioning from M to F. However, I think (posted to Quick Hit: Julia Serrano on trans feminism and womyn only spaces)
Please do not apologize for rambling, I definitely understand that it is a difficult subject. I appreciate your perspective a lot. For a very long time (many years) I also believed I could never forgive anyone who was a rapist. (posted to Responding to Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: A Survivor's Struggle)
Thank you. I am not a a christian, actually. I don't practice religion, it would be most fitting to say that I'm agnostic. I'm also an anarchist activist, so the forgiveness factor has more to do with that, for me. (posted to Responding to Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: A Survivor's Struggle)
I left a comment about Desmond Tutu and I just wanted to put a disclaimer that he is Archibishop Desmond Tutu and definitely comes from a Christian background. As an atheist I usually have a hard time connecting with arguments (posted to Responding to Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: A Survivor's Struggle)
Thanks for the post. Sometimes people do not understand that what they are doing is wrong (morally, legally), though that does not excuse their actions. THIS is why people need to be educated about consent, how to communicate about sex (posted to Responding to Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: A Survivor's Struggle)
yes. thank you. You don't have to forgive or condone what people have done in order to help them set up a life that doesn't involve that. I'd think it'd be better if you don't, though I have no idea (posted to Responding to Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: A Survivor's Struggle)
Spiffy McBang, thanks for this honest and thoughtful post. I agree that many men (and many women!!!) are taught to have too narrow a definition of rape and sexual assault, and therefore are unable to realize when they have become (posted to Responding to Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: A Survivor's Struggle)
