It's so cool that you have a supportive dad as a queer person and you get to live the life working in the Jim Henson Creature Shop!

Yea it'll die overnight. Like the porn ban did for tumblr

It's so cool to see your glow up!

GIRL IM SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR YOU!!!

I never anticipated my voice would leave the conference center. The Mormon church just fucked up majorly

I reached out to the woman who assaulted me this morning. I have no idea if she is even open to listening.

But I have to let this festering rot leave my chest

Nope!

Yea it was something not super advertised

I understand

So often the powerful are not held accountable and so the few times they are it feels like a win to get them taken down a peg. A win for the mob, but for the victim and the perpetrator their hurt hearts are locked together in a death spiral never healing forever

There are people on this site that bear the same wounds and refuse to let them heal, letting it gnaw them from the inside, a constant grudge. And the sad thing is, some of the people they hurt would be willing to come to the table, acknowledge the hurt and apologize and heal with them as people

Someone else.

I have this pain in my heart and likely will for a long long time or until such a time I can try to connect with her.

I get for survivors that nobody believed that that punishment feels right, that it feels cathartic but all it does is take your pain and never let you heal...

Person she has assaulted someone else. She likely thinks she is awful. She likely thinks she is worthless. And when you ingrain in someone that they are inherently predatory they usually do it again and again.

And I laid awake searching her last night thinking and worrying about her hurting...

Both carry the hurt. Both cannot resolve the pain that claws at their hearts.

I thought this approach was best when I was assaulted. I told everyone I could tried to remove her from society as much as I could and what did that gain me? I'm still constantly worried that like me and another...

But for most people it is. Most people aren't sociopaths that have no care about anyone. Most people have a heart even if it takes a bit to find it again.

One of the things I have found in the articles I have seen is that the punitive model heals neither the victim nor the perpetrator...

She herself had a child and he wished he could support her in a school production but he was barred. He understood this was the consequences of his actions and he owned them. He knows and feels and sees in her eyes what she feels.

He learned empathy.

This is not possible for everyone...

Like a person, a person that made a mistake but a person nonetheless. Each was given an opportunity to to grow and repair the harm they had done within reason and as they saw it was appropriate.

One man was contrite despite having sexually abused a I believe a child. His new gf let him grow...

Actions and their thoughts regarding what they had done. A group facilitator would go through with all of these men convicted of horrible sexual crimes and one by one they would have their ideas pushed back on and come to realize the extent that they had harmed others. Each of them was treated...