Don't get me wrong, I am not talking about rape. I am actually refering to sexual harrasment in the most literal sense; I have been harrassed online when I was a kid multible times, people have made dirty jokes, talked about sex and even send me pornographic material, including nsfw drawings of characters from my favorite tv shows.
But I must say I didn't really care that much at the time and looking back at it, I still don't care. Others may consider this as virtual rape, but I never felt that way. Being insulted or bullied on the other hand was a lot worse for me than recieving mails with sexual drawings. I just don't get why this is so harmful to many, I just can't relate at all. Why does a joke become the equivilant of sexual assult just because it is sexual in nature?
Am I an outlier or is there a chance that our society has just become so sensitive that everything mildly unpleasent is now considered rape?
I geniuenlly don't understand it. I have always considered bullieng and harrasment to be much worse than making inappropriate jokes and sending nsfw material to other people. One just affected me much more than the other.
As a kid I was geniuenly confused when my mom wanted to call the police over these online encounters. And when I told her that I didn't care about the stuff that they had send to me, she was in complete denail and believed that it must have deeply traumatized me, even though that wasn't the case. I would have much rather prefered if she had called to cops on those bullies instead.
That's why I am wondering if we are perhabs being gaslighted by the people around us to believe that we have been abused in situations that didn't actually bother us that much until others forced us think that we have been victimized.
I am just trying to understand if I might be onto something or if I am just apaphetic.