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vassilissa ([info]vassilissa) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-12-15 18:54:00


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Satanic ritual abuse wank
I dithered about whether to put this in unfunnybusiness or here, but in the end Satanic Ritual Abuse is not real, and what the person who said it was said was so funny it belonged here.

People who blatantly deny the existence of ritual abuse after being offered solid resources to the contrary demonstrate that they don’t need evidence about its existence. Instead, when they continue to deny its existence in a seemingly obsessive manner, they are more likely trolling for new victims in hopes that responding survivors will – while more emotional – slip-up and provide vulnerable, personal information.

There you go. If you deny the existance of ritual abuse, it's because you're looking for new victims to ritually abuse.


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[info]phosfate
2009-12-15 04:06 pm UTC (link)
Children are abused everywhere. But the ritualized, Satanic-panic daycare abuse scenario described in this book is fucking bullshit, and the hysteria over it harms everone it touches.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2009-12-15 04:46 pm UTC (link)
This.

Hell, I remember about twenty different stories about daycares in various cities that were apparently outfitted with secret passageways, had multiple levels of basement for various degrees of initiation/atrocity, had networks of interconnected underground chambers...

They actually did check one of these out because there was a fresh concrete patch on the floor in ABOUT the same place as a kid had reported a trapdoor to the basements of doom.

Turns out there had been one there once, but all it led to was a two foot deep whole that'd apparently once been a utility vault. Oops.

There are enough REAL cases of prolonged fucked-up abuse in this world; we don't need screaming histrionic failure-fuckery lies like this that in the end BADLY UNDERMINE THE CHANCES REAL ABUSE SUFFERERS HAVE AT BEING BELIEVED BECAUSE THEY LEND FURTHER EIGHT TO THE PRIVILEGED NOTION THAT PEOPLE WHO CALL OUT ABUSE ARE LYING HYSTERICS.

Its good to be vigilant but crying wolf over every piece of bullshit sensationalist OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG CULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLT dreck encountered does a fuckton more harm than good.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-12-15 05:36 pm UTC (link)
And that doesn't even take into account the people who've been imprisoned over exactly nothing. The perception that only 'bad' non-Christian people abuse...UGH.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2009-12-15 06:41 pm UTC (link)
THIIIIIIIIIIS. I know I'm being repetitive with that word but. AUGH. I was too pissy to even remember that, thank you for adding.

I have family in law enforcement and the mass hysteria over alleged SRA cases is something that n00b corrections officers of many stripes go over THOROUGHLY now. It's like, 'okay this was a fuck-up of high order we need to not pull it again.'

It's a case study in what not to do, now.

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[info]bobafeis
2009-12-15 10:21 pm UTC (link)
And often those innocent people were convicted mainly on the word of their (sometimes adult) children who firmly believe that their parents happily raped and murdered children in the name of Satan. Not a parent, but having your child honestly believe that of you has to be a wee bit unpleasant.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-12-16 12:58 am UTC (link)
God, yes. Nightmare fuel indeed.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-12-15 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, yes.

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[info]white_serpent
2009-12-15 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Exactly. An extension of this kind of paranoia is why my mother-in-law forwards me every. single. urban. legend. to hit her email box, all of them describing ways something seemingly-harmless is going to cause a woman to be attacked.

Could something similar happen one day? Maybe (technical impossibilities aside), but focusing on it is just encouraging women to be afraid to go out in public.

The RSA panic just leads to people believing that it's never, under any circumstances, safe to have your children out of your sight. That's paralyzing.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-12-15 06:16 pm UTC (link)
It also perpetuates the myth that the only people who abuse kids are caregivers or 'strangers.' I know three people personally who were raped as kids. The perpetrators? Dad, dad, mom's boyfriend. 30% of sexual abusers are family members. Caregivers can be dangerous, too, don't get me wrong, but...gaaah, this topic makes me into a wanky asshole, clearly.

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[info]mmanurere
2009-12-16 06:49 am UTC (link)
The "Satanic panic" schtick also actually helps provide cover for real, widespread child abuse at the hands of "mainstream" fundamentalist Protestant religious groups. It helps frame abuse as something done by "them", rather than crimes committed most often by parents and trusted adults (clergy, etc.). It has the same social function as smearing gay men for child molestation -- it leaves the actual abusers free to act.

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