abuse
#coherentism #todo
I think that the #media attention towards abuse is super good. More displays of what abuse is and how it affects people can help a lot of people get out of abusive relationships. Realizing that a certain person isn’t just showing you tough love but that they are gaslighting you can be super useful.
That said… I’m realizing that even these stereotypes of abuse may not go far enough in really telling people what abuse is. I think my biggest concern is that everything is a spectrum and that for most cases of abuse, the victims don’t know they are being abused because their abuse is lower on the spectrum than the most extreme cases.
Still, studying extremes is good, and extreme media representations of abuse can provide frameworks necessary to understand their own experiences.
