♥ ♥ ♥ Oh, thank you so much for this! I had high confidence when I saw that it was you who had posted it that you wanted some wrangling with, as you say, the other piece of this.

And... yeah. This is the thing that doesn't get talked about enough with dehumanization--- that you're leaving the person you've dehumanized with no way to interact with you except through some kind of force.