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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We All Begin in Naivete About Evil – But We Must Not Stay There
He also told them a parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? (Luke 6:39) Recently Mary made the following excellent comment in response to our blog post A Theory: Many Abuser Allies are Not Duped, but are Abusers Themselves as Well. Listen to what Mary said:… Continue reading We All Begin in Naivete About Evil – But We Must Not Stay There
