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lifetruetomehas anyone noticed this:
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UM followers hiding behind support of women's issues. I would love a UM woman student to say what she classifies as "abuse". The women I have worked with who had suffered DV and "abuse" hid under tables and got hit over the head with hammers ended up in hospitals and fled to refuges. I wouldn't have thought a man cuddling you without permission is as bad as being "beaten up". Of course there are scales of abuse, ie emotional, physical etc, but I wouldn't throw around the word "abuse" unless I had proof that a woman was being abused, otherwise the word "abuse" looses its true meaning and that doesn't help the real victims of DV or sexual assaults. If any UM woman student out there has truely suffered at the hands of a man by "abuse" then please go and have proper counselling tell the police and get an Intervention Order and work with the appropriate authorities. I am confused by what UM and Serge mean by the term "abuse". Please I would love a UM'er or Serge to explain.
I have seen first hand what :"abuse" does to women and it isn't pretty, normally drugs and alcohol are used to help numb the pain. Would a UM student help a woman who is experiencing abuse even if this woman was using "drugs and or alcohol" as a result of their life dilema? Would Serge open up his houses to these women, even if they had substance issues? Please unless the UM group as a whole is actually going to go and practically help women (and children by default) who are being abused could they stop hiding behind real issues such as domestic violence etc.
The more they say, the more it looks like they are hiding and ignoring the true abuse that is going on.
I agree with your lifettruetome that abuse of women, or men ( which fails ever to get a mention) should not be tolerated and where it truly exists it must be addressed.
However I don’t think the abuse Serge and the students are speaking about meets the criteria that even the author of the protest letter speaks of.
The Australian press (Courier Mail, News Corp*) has made claims this weekend that women who seek truth and a loving way of life are gormless, mindless followers and that we don’t have the intelligence to choose how we live. The blatant approval of sexual abuse in the article is simply shocking. The author states that one of the healing techniques offered by female practitioners caused women “to not allow their partners to touch [their breasts] without permission”.
There in-lies a deep fracture in the Media and how it portrays women as a whole. Less concerning is the drivel of two men’s opinion thinly veiled as ‘journalism’ – more devastating is the impact of this tirade of derogatory and misogynistic attitude towards women by mainstream media.What is interesting and worrying about this is that none of them, and especially the author of this seems to understand that in a normal, healthy consensual relationship people dont stop to ask if they can touch a certain part of the body. It is implicit in the act of physical intimacy. Every one seems to understand this fully to the point it does not need to be spelled out in the courier mail article...except, it seems, the cult members whose view of the world has been twisted like a pretzle. This is how odd their view of the world is, that they can take a normal human relationship aspect and twist it into an attack on them and a media enquiry.
What is even more worrying is that not one cult member has mentioned the headline fact of that article, which I will re-iterate: Serge was a bankrupt at a time when he claims to have been living a life of comfort and wealth. i.e., he is a liar. They also seem to fail to notice that he has taken their money and turned it into a small property empire while telling them he was a virtually begging bowl saint. So, they can ignore his lies and then go on a rant about something they fail to understand because Serge has convinced them that a man touching breasts during intimacy is tantamount to sexual abuse. Something is very not right here with this thinking but I guess that is afterall the reason we are all here.
What's more, the author is quite nasty and actually uses derogatory terms to demean men, which is interesting when she claims that they are the ones being abused.
The irony is that the real abuse on many levels emanates from the cult members. They are blind to it just as they choose to remain blind to Serge's fabrications and their own involvement in the cult.