Tag: Empathy

How have we encouraged increases in sexual assault against teenage girls?

This Week in Sexual Assault


Reading time: 6 minutes
In a very twisted and real way conservatives encouraged sexual assault against teenage girls during the #COVID19 pandemic lockdown by doing everything in their power to keep the pandemic and lockdown going. We’re reaping the results of those efforts now.

Trump is Dangerous Trump's Lack of Empathy

Trump’s Lack of Empathy Makes Him Dangerous And Not Just As a #COVID19 Superspreader — Part 2


Reading time: 4 minutes
The real danger of Trump is that he has no idea of the harm he causes. When he does realize that he’s causing harm, he enjoys it. It boosts his ego. His followers don’t see non-MAGAs as people. It is why they injure and hurt people over masks. It’s why they parade around with guns. They enjoy the fear they inspire. Trump’s lack of empathy is the root of his failure and a very real and present danger to us all.

View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

‘Get a Weapon’ — A Story of Deployment, Sexual Harassment, and Sexism from The Atlantic


Reading time: 1 minute
We need to develop everyday empathy with the people we encounter in our daily lives. That is to have a better understanding of their experience and our contributions to it.

This is a reblogged story of a woman’s experience working in Iraq shortly after the fall of Baghdad. It helped me understand the constant corrosive nature of sexism on women, which can easily be extended to the constant corrosive nature of racism on PoC’s.

Misery Loves Their Own Company

Ego stroking and addiction horror stories

Not Very Deep Thoughts

Short Fiction and Other Things

In Saner Thought

"It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error"..Thomas Paine

grouchyfarmer

A blog about just about anything and everything

LIMING'S LYNKZ

Opinions By The Master Opinionater

240 Character Conversation

Proud to have over one follower!

Another angry woman

Thoughts and rants from another angry woman

Tippitiwichet

In which I grow wildflowers and monsters, and homeschool one of them.