anti-anti-survivor:

micaxiii:

anti-anti-survivor:

The concept that only abuse survivors should write about abuse in a fictional setting helps antis achieve their modus operandi of the harassment of other tumblr users. Either they cause emotional distress by outing someone as a survivor and making them talk about their abuse in order to avoid harassment, or the targeted person is now open season for harassment for refusing to comply or not being an abuse victim in the first place.

What’s important is to listen and boost the voices of abuse survivors and help achieve a better understanding of what abuse is and looks like, instead of telling other people they’re not qualified enough to speak on a topic.

If you think someone isn’t qualified enough (and you have the spoons and/or the capability to do so) educate them.

I mean in the end, if you find a person is portraying abuse in a harmfully inaccurate way, it doesn’t really matter what experience they have because they still might need to be educated on what’s what.

so it just feels pointless to make a big deal about who is and isn’t allowed to write about stuff. if they do a bad job they do a bad job and we tell them “you did a bad job”, if they’re famous and therefor highly influential we might write articles and make memes, and then we move on to make our own and/or praise others’ good work instead.

I agree with this. It goes into ‘criticize the work, not the person writing it.’