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In reply to the discussion: I'm done, too. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Is there anybody in the world who has never been mistreated? I find that hard to believe. And I do not think it goes by various classes either.
I think of a GLBT classmate of mine who recently got married. Has he suffered a lot of abuse in life by virtue of his sexual orientation? I have not lived his life, obviously, any more than he has lived mine, but from where I sit his life does not look that bad.
Same with my black co-worker. Same with almost all of the women I know. If they are experiencing some sort of daily or weekly or monthly or bi-yearly outrages, then they are not sharing them with people they know.
I have no doubt they have experienced some crap, because I think everybody has, and it can be really bad for some people, but horror can cut across all categories. I think of my white male classmate whose whole family died in a fire when he was 14. It's a mean old world and there's a number of mean people in it.