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Many things in life can damage you physically, but the utmost emotional devastation will drive you to kill yourself.

by lagniappe 3y ago

parthianshotgun 3y ago
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- achenet 3y ago
  Deep psychological trauma can be viewed as a form of brain injury. It's honestly hard to compare emotional and physical trauma. You'll heal from a black eye in a few weeks, a broken bone in a few months, whereas I've personally had some emotional baggage that took me literally 17 years + extensive journaling, meditation and psychedelic use to heal, which shows that some emotional scars can take a very long time to mend. On the flip side, yeah, an injury like a stroke, or getting an eye poked out is permanent, while it's very possible in the modern world to find a new social circle after having been ostracised from an old one. It's also perhaps useful to note that in the modern world, one type of trauma can lead to another - getting beat up can lead to some emotional trauma that lasts much longer than the physical injuries, being socially isolated can lead to destructive behaviours like drug/alcohol abuse and self-harm...
  - maerF0x0 3y ago
    > It's honestly hard to compare emotional and physical trauma. (as a message to the whole tree of comments, not just you) It's also unnecessary to compare, it's not a competition. They're both trauma because damage has been done, they both scale from benign and playful[1] to horrifically destructive[2]. The worse it's enacted the worse it is, regardless of who did it and regardless of who did worse to the other gender. [1]: eg: expressions during sex, or teases during flirting [2]: eg violent shootings, or fake rape allegations - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11854355/Three-men-tried-lives-false-rape-allegations-woman-court-hears.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11854355/Three-men-...
pessimizer 3y ago
What about being tortured and raped by a man who enjoys your torture and wants to extend it for as long as he can? I'm sure it's happened within a mile of you sometime over the past week. imo, the main difference between female violence and male violence is that female violence happens in an environment where on average, 75% of people are stronger than you, and 40% of people are so dominant over you physically that a fair fight would be suicide. Male violence is done by people who are stronger than 75% of people, and are dominant over 40% of those so strictly that they have no physical fear at all of them. The reason violence gets normed as male violence is because of how easy it is for males to practice it, not because there's a special type of girl violence. Throw weak men in a prison with strong men, and the weak men will turn to female violence to survive.
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Many things in life can damage you physically, but the utmost emotional devastation will drive you to kill yourself.

parthianshotgun 3y ago

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achenet 3y ago
Deep psychological trauma can be viewed as a form of brain injury. It's honestly hard to compare emotional and physical trauma. You'll heal from a black eye in a few weeks, a broken bone in a few months, whereas I've personally had some emotional baggage that took me literally 17 years + extensive journaling, meditation and psychedelic use to heal, which shows that some emotional scars can take a very long time to mend. On the flip side, yeah, an injury like a stroke, or getting an eye poked out is permanent, while it's very possible in the modern world to find a new social circle after having been ostracised from an old one. It's also perhaps useful to note that in the modern world, one type of trauma can lead to another - getting beat up can lead to some emotional trauma that lasts much longer than the physical injuries, being socially isolated can lead to destructive behaviours like drug/alcohol abuse and self-harm...
- maerF0x0 3y ago
  > It's honestly hard to compare emotional and physical trauma. (as a message to the whole tree of comments, not just you) It's also unnecessary to compare, it's not a competition. They're both trauma because damage has been done, they both scale from benign and playful[1] to horrifically destructive[2]. The worse it's enacted the worse it is, regardless of who did it and regardless of who did worse to the other gender. [1]: eg: expressions during sex, or teases during flirting [2]: eg violent shootings, or fake rape allegations - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11854355/Three-men-tried-lives-false-rape-allegations-woman-court-hears.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11854355/Three-men-...

pessimizer 3y ago

What about being tortured and raped by a man who enjoys your torture and wants to extend it for as long as he can? I'm sure it's happened within a mile of you sometime over the past week. imo, the main difference between female violence and male violence is that female violence happens in an environment where on average, 75% of people are stronger than you, and 40% of people are so dominant over you physically that a fair fight would be suicide. Male violence is done by people who are stronger than 75% of people, and are dominant over 40% of those so strictly that they have no physical fear at all of them. The reason violence gets normed as male violence is because of how easy it is for males to practice it, not because there's a special type of girl violence. Throw weak men in a prison with strong men, and the weak men will turn to female violence to survive.

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