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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷8/21/2018 1:02:38 am PDT

re: #141 goddamnedfrank

I also dislike statistics thrown out with no supporting evidence about “abuse begetting more abuse.” (Someone in that thread commented that 40-80% - an awfully wide range - of children abused go on to become abusers.)

That has been studied. Those figures are wildly inflated. It is something like the claim that people who commit mass gun murders are “mentally ill” and therefore those with mental illness are much more likely to commit crimes like that (instead of the actual numbers which indicate those who are mentally ill are most likely to be victims). The overwhelming majority of those abused as a child never become abusers themselves, and even less so those abused as an adult.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

And as I understand the Me Too movement, it is people (primarily women but some men) coming forth with their own stories of being assaulted, whether as adults or children.