First and foremost, I suggest if you're back-channeling conversations that involve issues of public safety, that it's not helpful. Speak up?
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i hear you, but it's often not that easy. Especially if the unsafe person has a lot of clout.
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When one stays silent @adrienneleigh the next will get the beating. I'm refusing to be silent because I don't want anyone else to be unsafe.
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And that's a good idea! It's always good to speak out when you have the ability to do so. Whisper networks are NEVER an
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...OPTIMAL solution to a problem; they're just often the only AVAILABLE solution for victims with no power or social capital.
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Is it more ethical to keep a job than protect another's safety? More ethical to stay powerless than to take your power back? @adrienneleigh
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I think that there are damn few easy answers, especially in a rape culture where victims are NEVER believed ANYWAY.
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How I wish there were. This is just so disgusting to me. I really had hoped we would have improved by now, not worsened.
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(To be clear: i think ENCOURAGING victims to stand up, and having their backs when they do, is great. But DEMANDING that they
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...speak up? I don't think it's right to demand that victims risk their careers & communities & reputations & even lives.)
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
No of course. I do not have authority over any other human on this earth. Nor do I care to, I rebel enough against my own! :)

Jun 11, 2016 · 11:48 PM UTC
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