Current mood:	disappointed
Entry tags:	body

I just don't know people
Two things that are making me sad about the world right now:

We have the shaming of a sexual abuse survivor by a member of the lj community. (Warning: Very explicit discussion of sexual assault and the nature, anatomy, cause & effect of triggers. Is itself triggery.) Via giddygeek's post here.

It makes me so angry and so sad that someone can treat another person (who has shared a deeply personal part of themselves in an effort to educate people about triggering) with such cruelty.

Apparently we're beyond discussing the distinction between rude and hurtful and need to cover treating other people like human beings.

If that wasn't bad enough we have a hateful, misogynistic ad campaign designed to prey upon women's insecurities and reinforce the idea that we should use and hate each other (and of course ourselves). (Warning, potentially triggery for body image stuff.) The women in the ads look like regular, attractive people (the woman in the pink dress in particular is rocking it out). Cue more anger. I do not understand how this ad campaign came to be. The copy. OMG really. No one, no one, realized what a horrible, horrible thing this is. And it's aimed at women. At women! WTF world.

eta: I think I learned about Abercrombie's douchery in college, but since I'm posting about shaming and bodies, here's another example.