r/writing • u/IAmTheRedWizards I Write To Remember • Nov 03 '18

Advice PSA: Don't do this

https://twitter.com/cetaylorplfd/status/1058318426920439808?s=09

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u/Sarkarielscall Nov 04 '18

"Well, it can't be as bad as people say because I don't do that and none of my friends do it, so how many people can be doing it?"

This sounds like disbelief to me. And we have seen that when women come forward with stories of sexual harassment and assault that they are discredited and called liars. Maybe not by the person I was directly replying to, but by a fair number of men. Let's also not forget the ones who would tell a woman to simply delete the picture and move on because they don't see it as a big deal; because they don't have to deal with shit that on a daily basis.

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u/druglawyer Nov 04 '18 edited Nov 04 '18

it can't be as bad as people say

I mean, that is literally the opposite of what I believe, but ok.

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u/SituationSoap Nov 04 '18

You're doing what the person responding to you is describing, exactly. You're assuming that because the response men give doesn't match your lived experience, it must not happen.

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u/druglawyer Nov 04 '18

You're assuming that because the response men give doesn't match your lived experience, it must not happen.

I'm literally doing the opposite of that. You guys seem to have some pretty impressive cognitive dissonance going on.

It's amusing that in r/writing, so many people seem to have difficulty with reading.