Monday, 6 February 2023

[Content Warning! sexual assault, including CSA] sexual assault (interim, partial post)

Note: CONTENT WARNING - this post covers discussion of sexual assault. Reader caution is recommended. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]).  

 

Sexual assault is a crime that can be inflicted in many ways and potentially by many people - including: 

  • cisgender men against cisgender women (the most prevalent - see here);
  • cisgender men against others - girls, boys, TGD people, and others (reading the Crimes Act section on this lists some sickening, truly disturbing possibilities); 
  • cisgender women against cisgender men - as this is too often ignored  or treated with derision (which undoubtedly reduces the report rate), I’ve provided some links below on this problem, and also cisgender women against others (girls, boys, TGD people, and others); 
  • TGD people against cisgender and TGD people; and 
  • children against other children.

Sexuality is not an issue - especially in the case of child abuse, but LGB people are capable of committing sexual assault as well as heterosexual people. 

Victims of sexual assault need support - and legal systems in most parts of the world need to stop double assaulting victims. "Myths" (lies of convenience to belief systems) need to be rebutted, and other (in addition to the "myths") factors contributing to sexual assault need to be dealt with - factors such as endemic patriarchal social engineering, disparity in power, inadequacies of character leading to violent reactions to actual or perceived loss of power/status, incompetence with emotions / relationships / being human, etc, etc, etc. 

All religious / spiritual paths have a particular obligation in terms of preventing sexual assault and dealing with the aftermath - especially as so many religious or other paths have been the scenes of such crimes - sometimes in ways and to extents that are truly horrendous. 

Some general links are: 

And the promised links on the underacknowledged and inappropriately responded to problem of women assaulting men: 

... and other links: 

  • “male and LGBTIQA+ [domestic violence] victim survivors regularly face hurdles when seeking help” (ABC); 

To add a personal note to that, every  single sexual assault I have been subjected to - including the child sexual abuse and the rape, before and after transition (specifically, after gender reassignment surgery) - was committed by a cisgender woman. And every  single  one of those women I confronted about their evil (I didn't confront all of them) came out with the same sort of stereotypical crap ("most enjoy that", "everyone else does that", etc) that men used to come out with when confronted over sexual assault - every  single  one. 

One of the other bits of rubbish I've experienced is someone who claimed he was a sleepwalker and would have sex while sleepwalking. It was pretty obviously (from their body language and few other indicators) a blatant attempt to justify rape - there would no consent from the victim (as they portrayed it), and they seemed to be surprised when I objected and stated I would defend myself. For some genuine information on this, see here, here, here, and here - all of which say waking people while sleepwalking is NOT dangerous (another bit of the BS those two males were claiming), but should be done gently.

Although the numbers clearly show that sexual assault is overwhelmingly predominantly committed by cisgender men, cisgender women are NOT saints, they're NOT blameless, and they need to learn how to accept culpability, and be responsible enough to change themselves and stereotypes/culture/systems. 


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