• SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    much of the language and ideas you expressed are more in line with if some great violence or trauma was inflicted

    It was, on me. And it happens because assholes like you normalize abuse and defend aggressors instead of victims.

    It does not line up with an unwanted head pat.

    It does, the child’s consent was disregarded and her personal space was violated. This is unacceptable.

    I am still not convinced you know what a pat on the head is compared to a punch in the face.

    I’m still not convinced you realize you’re literally trying to defend abuse.

    Fuck off.

    • blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      It was, on me. And it happens because assholes like you normalize abuse and defend aggressors instead of victims.

      This is not about you, and that’s weird as hell that you’re saying you’ve been traumatized and violated by reading a story of an old man getting beat up for patting a child on the head without asking first. This is a next-level martyrdom complex.

      If you think I’m “normalizing abuse” by taking issue with your idea of abuse as irrational, ridiculous, and downright stupid, then you can follow through with what that means for your assertion that I’m normalizing abuse.

      It does, the child’s consent was disregarded and her personal space was violated. This is unacceptable.

      A pat on the head is not a punch to the face, the same way that tripping and falling because someone accidentally bumped into you is not the same as having someone break your ankles with a golf club. Flattening two very different actions to a common denominator in order to treat them both as extremely as possible is irrational and, interestingly, a highly aggressive and hostile act in and of itself.

      I’m still not convinced you realize you’re literally trying to defend abuse.

      Fuck off.

      A pat on the head is not abuse. I question your notions of what abuse is if you’re throwing around that term so liberally. I challenge you to go to a group of abuse victims and tell them that an old man patted you on the head so you’re equally as aggrieved and traumatized as someone who experiences domestic violence that leaves bruises and black eyes.

      Then we’ll see who has to fuck off.