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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]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/.
I recently re-watched the movie “Labyrinth of Lies”, about Germany’s trials in the 1960s of SS guards from concentration & death camps, and I was struck by how the part, mostly early in the film, about covering up the past using bland, wilful nudge-nudge wink-wink denialism was so similar to what was and is being done by cismale sexists and misogynists - and, furthermore, how, much as the trials the film ends with were necessary to bring the hidden hate to the open, so too was the #MeToo movement needed to bring endemic, hidden/covered up misogyny to the light of publicity so that that problem could start being unravelled ...
And the unravelling proceeds - and eventually will lead to women’s commission of sexual assaults also being brought in to the light of publicity so those problems can be addressed and those victims given some healing - including against the damage caused by endemic hiding of the problem ... but for now, the overwhelming preponderance of such crimes by cisgender men must be addressed.
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).#PsychicABetterWorld and candles for Viva La Résistance à Tr_ mp! and may all that I do be of value and actively BPM used for and by the nonphysical BPM
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