Beyond Selidor

To say that all RH did was to utter words is a complete denial of what we are as writers. Words have power, and words wielded in hatred and violence are just as harmful as violence dealt out with fists.

—Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, 'Standing Up and Speaking Truth'

Yes, this is a post on Winterfox/Requires Hate/Benjanun Sriduangkaew. Consider that a content warning for references to abusive behaviour of many kinds. I've put the post behind a cut for that reason.

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There are certain things that I simply do not post on Facebook, even though posting them on Dreamwidth/LJ is essentially preaching to the choir. It's because I know that even though the majority of my Facebook friends will either react positively or benignly ignore anything I say about rape culture, there'll always be someone who attempts to take me to task, makes stupid victim-blaming 'you wouldn't walk around with money dangling out of your pockets or leave your house door unlocked' analogies or accuses me of thinking badly of all men. I just don't have the energy to engage with that sort of stuff, but I always have a lot of feelings about this particular issue and need to talk about them somewhere. So, lucky you. You get to read them.

( Cut for discussion of bullying and rape culture )