jadelennox: Senora Sabasa Garcia, by Goya (Default)
jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2021-11-13 12:07 am (UTC)

When I was reading the letter, I assumed LW was going to say the DIL accused her of having white women's tears in situations where she was actualfax triggered into rape-memory trauma, but from the letter, I don't think that's the case? In any case LW seems very sensitive to the issues at hand -- overly so, TBH, given that she has no responsibility to take the time to investigate [her] rapist with compassion and look at the society surrounding us -- and she doesn't strike me as the sort of person who'd assume all mentions of white women's tears are actually about her?

And yet... I don't know. If her DIL is calling her a Karen, that's completely inappropriate. If you're mad at your MIL's racism there are productive ways to address it (including disengaging). But if she's just mad that her DIL uses the term Karen at all, then I admit (unless LW's name is Karen) that not only does she need to get over it, but yeah, the relationship to the rape is inexplicable to me.


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