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The number of examples I have seen of people being told to shut up about their lived experiences with sexual abuse in the past 24 hours on this platform is deeply disturbing.

I am calling on y’all to take a deep breath and listen to women for once. There is a time and place for tone policing and it’s never the very minute a woman speaks up.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people seem to think things like sexism are a personal failing or deliberate act as opposed to a systemic issue that affects us all.

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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 15 points 6 months ago

Lemmy has been very good in my experience with recognizing this truth when it comes to systemic racism. I guess I thought it would translate more easily to gender as well but clearly I was quite mistaken.