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• DarkPersephone: Thanks for the links but I am already familiar with them. But I am not talking about any articles on rape. I am trying to challenge succoncious, patriarchal assumptions that people make about survivors after the event. Frankly...it's not
  (posted to I am not listening.)
• Yay Milena!! You and Rebekah are talking about EXACTLY what I was trying to convey with this post! Thank you!
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• Yay Milena! You and Rebekah are talking about EXACTLY what I was trying to convey with this post. Thank you!! (oh...and sorry if this is a double-post...I can't sign in properly!)
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• Rebekah: yay again! The reason "IamnotTheDudeness" (ironic name really, considering his comments!!)is trying to derail us, is the standard reason that everyone tries to silence survivors. It's a feeling of "there by the grace of god go I". I have
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• Phenicks: I don't agree with your last point. It was her twitter page and no one else's business, how she should feel. Sure - they can comment on her announcement if they wish but it is still her right to
  (posted to Woman vilified for tweeting her relief at miscarriage)

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• She has the right to say whatever she wants -- and people have the right to think she's an obnoxious jerk. When she says such things in a public (or semi-public) forum, she should probably expect some people to recoil. (posted to Woman vilified for tweeting her relief at miscarriage)
• The difference between telling my friend I'm pregnant if she miscarried or that I miscarried too if she miscarried is that chnces are, she would feel slighted if I *didnt* tell her. As friends she trusted me with personal information (posted to Woman vilified for tweeting her relief at miscarriage)
• "It's the difference between not getting pregnant because you've successfully used contraception and not getting pregnant because you're not physically able to. Regardless of whether you want to be pregnant or not, one is an excercise of bodily autonomy, the (posted to Woman vilified for tweeting her relief at miscarriage)
• I think that if you said that you were relieved your mother had died because it ended her suffering, a lot of people would understand that feeling. Some people would be offended, of course, but that wouldn't mean you were (posted to Woman vilified for tweeting her relief at miscarriage)
• Ah. You see your argument on consciousness gets to the specifics of my point. I said pull her feeding tube which in most cases imply a state of unconsciousness where her life depends on machines like the life of the (posted to Woman vilified for tweeting her relief at miscarriage)

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