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 keep thinking back to this post....Tenbarge: Pretty much everyone is aware and has personal experience with men in positions of power being predatory, abusive, and violent—and getting away with it.
03/25/26 01:41 PM
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Pretty much everyone is aware and has personal experience with men in positions of power being predatory, abusive, and violent—and getting away with it. What is rarer and invokes rage and backlash is when someone tries to hold those men to account. That is what people have a problem with.
You can see this very clearly in institutional responses to abuses of power, but you can also see it in the specific backlash whistleblowers and victims receive. The goalposts shift. It’s not “did this happen,” it’s “can you prove it?” But any evidence you have will never be considered enough.
In addition to creating impossible standards for evidence, the reaction from institutions and individuals swings around to blaming the victim and figuring out what they did wrong so we can justify not doing anything about the person in power. If it’s the victim’s fault, then the problem is solved.
It doesn’t have to be a man in power and a woman being victimized (although it often is). You also see this with parents and children, men abusing other men, women abusing other women, governments abusing entire populations of people, and so on.
https://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3mhb6v5ej2c2v
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