“b-but bears are actually dangerous!” Shut the hell up.

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    26 months ago

    You’re free to disagree, but for me and many others, I’ve been through both, and I’m definitely waaaay more scared of being sexually assaulted again than being beaten half to death again. They have very different effects on your psyche. Physical violence I react far more with anger than fear, even if I was terrified in the moment. When it looks like it’s happening again, my brain says “Fight back.” When I’m afraid of sexual trauma being relived, my brain says “Escape, now. Can’t escape? Submit. Maybe that way they won’t kill you too at least.”

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        36 months ago

        How about you miss the entire point and get aggressive for no reason?
        Seriously, what kind of response to “I’ve been traumatized by men” is “you should traumatized by bears too?”