It would be awesome to live in the fantasy world people like this live in, where the constant and completely undisguised practice of women casually degrading children legally prevented from removing themselves from their control is a quirky little verbal tic that they can’t really help, and shouldn’t be expected to help. Unfortunately, some of us have to live in the real world - and in that real world, “lashing out and saying mean things” is not a “thought crime,” it is a constant and regular occurrence inflicted on people who are forbidden from removing themselves from the women subjecting them to it. This practice is upheld by a cadre of other people just like this - neoliberals who think their cultural entitlement to children’s lives and bodies is a tragic little accident that will go away as soon as the world starts being nicer to them, who are so thoroughly entrenched in their privilege that they think it’s manifestations are actually unfortunate coping mechanisms, and if anybody gets rightfully angry at them for it, why, they Just Don’t Get It! They’re oppressing you just like you said they would!
This person, like the members of the Zionist rape cult such as sprinkledsalt and her ilk enjoying their post, feels entitled to perpetuate the domination of children as recompense for their own oppression. Their sort is everywhere. The misogynistic twink behind the bar, the white girl collecting fatspo on ED Twitter, the TERF asking people what a woman is, the traitor who has discovered a single vector in which they can claim power over another group of people more downtrodden than them and clings to it with all their might, hiding behind their own victimhood all the while. They think it doesn’t matter that they are an oppressor because they’re oppressed, and the lives and bodies of the people they’re dominating are acceptable collateral for their own misery, as men have been doing to women for centuries. They, like most men, have deluded themself into thinking the people taking the blowback of their unhappiness are actually partially to blame for it, and they, like most men, have accepted that their community’s abuse of those people is a harmless little quirk that doesn’t need fixing. As such, they have lost the right to other people’s sympathy.
So here goes: I hope that everything you’re so so afraid about continues to cause you and people like you pain. May your suffering be immense, your life be degrading, your memory be a bad dream. This trauma you’re using as a cudgel to justify victimizing other people who have it much worse than you on every conceivable legal level is the only punishment you’ll ever get, since you face no consequences for the behavior you’re enabling, and until something changes, I’m going to let that console me. Because you’ve decided your pain is a rhetorical tool we can pick up and put down to justify our bad behavior, we should accept your reading of your own experiences, and be thankful for them. You’ve earned it, unlike the children you’ve got pinned under your boot.
