Most people (and most of our social institutions) do not know how to honour the many creative ways victims resist abuse, oppression and violence. Rather than seeing and honoring a victim’s resistance, they see the victim’s responses to the abuse as indicating her deficiency or defectiveness. And because they see her as deficient, they put… Continue reading How victim’s responses to abuse are mis-labelled, and how abusers’ tactics of abuse are mis-labelled.
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Lording it Over the Flock Creates an Abuser-friendly Climate
Matthew 20:25-26 But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 1 Peter 5:2-3 shepherd the flock of… Continue reading Lording it Over the Flock Creates an Abuser-friendly Climate
