05-24-2019, 03:01 PM
(05-24-2019, 02:20 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I just want someone to actually try to go to a trans woman of color and explain to her, "Well, you chose this incarnation, and Ra says that there is no right or wrong, and you can choose whether or not you are a victim! It's easy! All is well!"
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Most people who are oppressed - trans, gay, female, Muslim, whatever - do not feel acceptance or understanding when you tell them to rise out of their victimhood. They aren't there yet, and they have to feel like you understand them before they will take any of your advice. It's just the metaphysical nature of the energy transfer, I'm not trying to get philosophical here.
I personally would not tell anyone that. Neither do I think "all is well."
What I mean—if any of what you said was in response to me—by my comments about victimhood are not about calling "victims" out and lecturing them. 1) I just don't like labels (and that is another conversation), and 2) I am more interested in empowering people. I see pain everywhere, in victims and perpetrators. That's why I think prisons should be places of healing rather than punishment.
I do understand the need to give ostracized people a pause, a respite, from the brunt of societal bias. That is one side of a complicated world we live in. I don't have any answers, other than to do what I do in my life based on my own conscience, sense of integrity, and evolving awareness of the bigger picture. There are others who are activists, and I honor that and see the need for it in this world.