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This is not about you, and that's weird as hell that you're saying you've been traumatized and violated by reading a story of an old man getting beat up for patting a child on the head without asking first. This is a next-level martyrdom complex.
If you think I'm "normalizing abuse" by taking issue with your idea of abuse as irrational, ridiculous, and downright stupid, then you can follow through with what that means for your assertion that I'm normalizing abuse.
A pat on the head is not a punch to the face, the same way that tripping and falling because someone accidentally bumped into you is not the same as having someone break your ankles with a golf club. Flattening two very different actions to a common denominator in order to treat them both as extremely as possible is irrational and, interestingly, a highly aggressive and hostile act in and of itself.
A pat on the head is not abuse. I question your notions of what abuse is if you're throwing around that term so liberally. I challenge you to go to a group of abuse victims and tell them that an old man patted you on the head so you're equally as aggrieved and traumatized as someone who experiences domestic violence that leaves bruises and black eyes.
Then we'll see who has to fuck off.
abuse verb
Why are you gatekeeping it?
Not only do you not understand how definitions work, you also don't know what gatekeeping means.
Here's a definition to look up: hysteria.
Fuck you for normalizing abuse.
Does the abuse I suffered inconvenience you?
A song for you: https://snoopsqueak.com/videos/31
DARVO
Without consent, yes, it is abuse.
Fuck you for normalizing abuse, shitbag.
I'd trust you to define abuse as much as I'd trust you to not stab someone in the for accidentally bumping into you on the street because you can't tell the difference between touch and violent assault.
The only thing I'm normalizing is not reacting like a psychopath.
Fuck you for normalizing abuse.