Watching secondary perpetrators gain more and more influence, with their abusiveness completely unquestioned and instead forgotten, is nothing short of torture.
There are people who cause secondary victimization themselves, yet when you criticize them, they say, "For someone who claims hurting people is wrong, you're being quite aggressive." This reversal of victim and offender exists everywhere.
I used to engage in self-harm to cope with various forms of anger. I no longer have to do that now, but without my partner, I probably would have kept cutting myself this whole time, and I might not even be alive in the first place.
Because there is no filtration system upstream, backbreaking work is created downstream. While building a filtration system is essential, the people in power don't even drink the river water in the first place, so they don't think it's necessary.
There is a writer who acts as a mentor to idols despite facing allegations of sexual grooming. There is also a feminist lawyer who defends that person. And to top it off, they both appear in the media as public intellectuals. There is no way this world isn't completely insane.
Secondary victimization is an atrocious act that inflicts even deeper suffering on those who are already hurting. I just want more people to understand the cruelty of it.