the rape victim series II

[sosadlyfucked.livejournal.com]

"he said it wouldn't hurt"






About 44% of rape victims are under age 18. Three out of every twenty victims (15%) are under age 12.

rape, abuse, and incest national network

Comments

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

I don't believe John was talking about changing the community rules. In fact I can't see where he said they ought to be. He said the name ought to be changed if the majority of systems here identify as being trauma-created, which I had been the first one to propose-- if the focus is going to be on protecting people from getting triggered due to things which remind them of past traumas, it's not a place we're going to feel welcome in.

Likewise, what you perceive here is also a wave of responses by a group of close-knit friends. None of us have the power to effect change in the rules of the community, as we are not mods, even if we had wanted to.

[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

You are right. I had assumed a change of name would mean a change of bylaws as well.
The thing that really attracts me to this community is that it is a crossroads for all kinds of multiples, and the entire range of thought regarding multiplicity itself. We have aspie multiples, otherkin, simply natural multiples, natural with trauma as a kicker..the whole gamut, right up to and including trauma ORIGIN and the whole medicalised DID model. As such, we are right on the front lines of many battles. We dicker about philosophy, ideology, psychiatry and neurology, and ethics. We have to plod through so much swampy ground to discuss these wildly divergent views of ourselves.
To get to the point, I would be extremely sorry if you and ksol no longer felt welcome in the community because of this particular wave of feeling. An expression of strong emotions by multiples with a trauma background, over one particular image, is not a signal that you should be on your merry way. For my own part, I would be shocked if the same reaction to an image would ever happen again..you can quote me on that. It was a particularly effective, highly specific, completely ill timed image. We all have our achilles heels.