- Joined
- Feb 12, 2024
To add to all these points:It's just hard, in the end. Abusive and manipulative men - a group which includes all troons, since they are at their core manipulators - can make it really, really fucking hard for women to escape them, and unfortunately society in many ways aids and abets those abusers and manipulators.
- Troons seem to specifically want to go after the sweet and naive "bring out the good in people by being good to them" types. They think you can fix these kinds of things with kindness. Abusers have to pick their victims carefully, as someone more cynical and with a stronger sense of self is less likely to be trapped.
- The abusive behavior doesn't begin when they officially troon out. By the time they do that's it's been years of manipulative and toxic behavior and introducing various things into the relationship that lead up to the full troon out (read trans widows stories there is always some form of degeneracy they begin to want to introduce, aspects of crossdressing they begin to introduce as a "just for fun" thing like makeup and nails, and the list goes on). So by the time it's "call my Nancy" the wives have been indoctrinated into the abuse, so to speak. There is a reason battered wives will stick up for their husbands or go back to them. Part of abuse is brainwashing you into accepting it.
- It's hard enough to get out of a "normal" abusive situation but troons are coddled and enabled and women who express disgust and want to leave such husbands are seen as bigots a lot of the time which adds to the difficult of getting away because there is now an added political element to their decisions. The support network that might've otherwise been there is gone as they'll see her motivations for wanting to leave as out of some sort of transphobia. They actively participate in the gaslighting. (One of the most horrifying aspects of all of this.)