What a term to use about anyone let alone people you suppose to be abuse victims. This is shameful.
We see this countless times in our history, abusers lauded, praised, with status, titles, wealth and popular acclaim. Detractors are ignored, slandered and side-lined, and after the abusers die, it transpires all those hushed whispers were true and the detractors were right all along.
> shamed as town sluts
Though it was still clear what the writer meant. I'm surprised that someone ran with an uncharitable interpretation like they did.
> I'm surprised that someone ran with an uncharitable interpretation like they did.
I am less so, maybe I'm getting old and falling into elderly tropes, but I feel like there's a growing uptick in society with people seeking a platform to moralise, while skimming the content and not understanding it. The short-cuts that were originally just amber/red flags (e.g. like the casualness of throwing out a harsh label like "slut") are starting to become the offense, as opposed to the actual behaviour (the underlying cruelty) that they originally hinted at.