You wouldn’t even wear what you’re wearing, trust me. I can tell from just looking at you, you never. I’m not saying nothing bad has ever happened to you, you’re not bad looking, I’m sure there’s been some sort of degradation or whatever come your way in life, but I’m talking Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning type violation and terror and suffering here. And this is the big difference, you and me here, cause this isn’t about politics or feminism or whatever, for you this is just ideas, you’ve never been there. Existence in life breaks people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time, trust me I know.
She’s still here, and now she knows something. What she knows is that the most totally terrible terrifying thing that she could ever have imagined happening to her has now happened, and she survived. One is, afterwards she knows something about herself that she never knew before.
No one’s gonna say the sick bastards who did it shouldn’t be put in jail, but let’s put two things into perspective here. Think about being degraded and brought within an inch of your life, for example. Now think about it, if there was no Holocaust, there’d be no Man’s Search for Meaning…. It’s about his experience in the human dark side. But did you read Viktor Frankl? Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning? It’s a great, great book, but it comes out of his experience. Does anybody think it was good that it happened? No, of course not. What about afterwards? All I’m saying is there are certain cases where it can enlarge you or make you more of a complete human being, like Viktor Frankl. Why are women so special? Not that anybody ought to be raped or abused, nobody’s saying that, but that’s what is going on. Everybody gets hurt and violated and broken sometimes.
Having a knee-jerk attitude to anything is a mistake, especially in the case of women, where it adds up to this very limited and condescending thing of saying they’re fragile, breakable things that can be destroyed easily. “Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their positive aspects in the long run? … You have to be careful of taking a knee-jerk attitude.
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