I have a harder time framing her a monster than other prominent male defenders of Epstein because she seems like she's trying to normalize her own abuse. I suppose hurt people hurt people but people hurt by hurt people aren't less hurt because they were hurt by hurt people.

[–] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 40 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hurt people hurt people is the only reasoning or understanding that I've managed to come up as an explanation of why so many of us who were teens in the 90s had shit like this happen to us and why we just got told it was normal or if we got hurt, that it was our fault.

The fucked up way young girls especially were treated like adults in some ways and not others is very 90s.

But then I also know we all lived through it, had kids of our own. And having witnessed one whole human grow from a baby to an adult and seen how a kid at 13-18 is still just such a child I cannot understand how anyone (especially a parent) could ever let a grown ass man near a literal child. If I even think about it in relation to my own kid (or any kid) it makes me feel physically sick.

And then I compare that to the non-reaction of the generations past and although the "hurt people hurt people" probably explains some of it, they are also shit people for letting these things happen and become normalized. Every adult in a girls life who has had to go through SA and who makes them feel like it was their fault or was ok should get wall .

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Always thought that was a cop out, but t’s true. Hurt people do indeed be hurting people

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

the older I get, the more I realize how much it is the driving force for everything evil and bad in the world