VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Edwin|DATE|1361884435|CONTENT|Cause and effect is very difficult to decide. Is someone&#039;s testimony on alleged abuse when young more believable because they are  mentally unstable or less? Very easy to say that early abuse warped their whole lives. It obviously can do but may not necessarily do so.

What does seem apparent is that people&#039;s states of mind and mental states are very malleable and tend to follow the mores of the time.
Am I unfeeling if I would rather people were imbued with the spirit of shit happens get over it than be told continually that as victims they must remain victims and accept a permanent disablement because of unpleasant experiences in the past. Surely this latter is to continue the power that the abuser had over them?

I do find it laughable that one moment women in the upper echelons are powerful and all the rest and the next are remembering a past unpleasant encounter as scarring them for life. Same as women in jobs whose salaries I could never have aspired to complaining about lack of opportunity.|EMAIL|aeduin@aol.com|IP-ADDRESS|92.6.79.57|MODERATIONFLAG|