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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 737590" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>While I was out of the house for a few minutes driving around, I came to the same conclusion, re.</p><p></p><p>It occurred to me that this for me was a "me too" moment.</p><p></p><p>The women who spoke out about their having been victimized privately did so despite their awareness they would be denigrated and personally attacked.</p><p></p><p>They knew they would be shamed.</p><p></p><p>They took on the responsibility for whatever hurt and damage their speaking out would cause. They did it anyway.</p><p></p><p>Because for them suffering in silence was no longer an option. They faced the important and true question. Whose shame is it?</p><p></p><p>They risked that others would understand and feel compassion, not condemnation; that there was a public space and place for woundedness, and for power and voice too.</p><p></p><p>I never thought this before but CD is a "me too" kind of place. We each of us find the strength to seek compassion. We begin to risk believing we deserve it. We each of us find the strength and compassion to give it. Like re said yesterday. The choice for courage and compassion. For self and others.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for the place to have this conversation. Each of us here have named and claimed and spoken and defined and defended this space and place. At the same time we have done the same for ourselves and each other..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 737590, member: 18958"] While I was out of the house for a few minutes driving around, I came to the same conclusion, re. It occurred to me that this for me was a "me too" moment. The women who spoke out about their having been victimized privately did so despite their awareness they would be denigrated and personally attacked. They knew they would be shamed. They took on the responsibility for whatever hurt and damage their speaking out would cause. They did it anyway. Because for them suffering in silence was no longer an option. They faced the important and true question. Whose shame is it? They risked that others would understand and feel compassion, not condemnation; that there was a public space and place for woundedness, and for power and voice too. I never thought this before but CD is a "me too" kind of place. We each of us find the strength to seek compassion. We begin to risk believing we deserve it. We each of us find the strength and compassion to give it. Like re said yesterday. The choice for courage and compassion. For self and others. Thank you for the place to have this conversation. Each of us here have named and claimed and spoken and defined and defended this space and place. At the same time we have done the same for ourselves and each other.. [/QUOTE]
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