Posted 7 months ago Comments

One consequence of expanding your definition of “abuse” beyond A Child Called It stuff: you’ll realize that not every abuser can be punished. It’s no use advocating for emotional abusers, or she-never-said-no rapists, to all be locked up and the key thrown away. There’s no law providing for that—there can’t be a law, these things are so complicated and emotional—and there’s no brute-force fix for it. I won’t be friends with an abuser and I’ll try to give their victim any assistance I can without putting them at further risk, but I can’t be Batman. The most painful part of recognizing non-mega-violent abuse is that sometimes you see it and you just have to let it keep going on, not because it isn’t abuse but because most abuse is beyond the reach of simplistic “just throw the monsters in Monster Jail” solutions.

- The Pervocracy

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