I’m concerned about situations where something goes very wrong with EA, outsiders notice this and experience+express strong negative emotion, but the expression of emotion causes people within EA to disregard the outsider because “obviously their thinking is clouded by emotion”.
It’s probably true that strong emotions cloud judgement, but they’re also evidence that something is very wrong.
Reduced accuracy, combined with increased potential importance, could mean that the expected value of listening to an emotional person is about as high overall.
I’d hardly say someone who has been catching rapists in your community for six years is an “outsider” who just “noticed” a problem. I’ve been doing this November 2016. Contrast my# with Julia Wise’s appendix of a year of situations (mostly interpersonal conflict, which she lumps together with rape and sexual misconduct, which is in and of itself a problematic stance) to notice which approach is more effect—hers or mine?
And as I explain in my post, I’m quite intentional in my use of strongly emotive language, to get my point across. Knowing when and how to use emotion is in and of itself a valuable skill—in some professions (such as mine, and the one I’m coming out, as I’m client-facing). I think that CH not being emotional is one of the reasons survivors approach me instead of them, or more accurately, that I’ve had more than one survivor tell me speaking to me made them feel better than any prior conversation, which pushes my ability to gather and finalize reports to be higher than average.
Also, this is intended to be a discussion on rape and EA’s handling of it, not on emotions. I downvoted to get the conversation back on track.
I’m concerned about situations where something goes very wrong with EA, outsiders notice this and experience+express strong negative emotion, but the expression of emotion causes people within EA to disregard the outsider because “obviously their thinking is clouded by emotion”.
It’s probably true that strong emotions cloud judgement, but they’re also evidence that something is very wrong.
Reduced accuracy, combined with increased potential importance, could mean that the expected value of listening to an emotional person is about as high overall.
I’d hardly say someone who has been catching rapists in your community for six years is an “outsider” who just “noticed” a problem. I’ve been doing this November 2016. Contrast my# with Julia Wise’s appendix of a year of situations (mostly interpersonal conflict, which she lumps together with rape and sexual misconduct, which is in and of itself a problematic stance) to notice which approach is more effect—hers or mine?
And as I explain in my post, I’m quite intentional in my use of strongly emotive language, to get my point across. Knowing when and how to use emotion is in and of itself a valuable skill—in some professions (such as mine, and the one I’m coming out, as I’m client-facing). I think that CH not being emotional is one of the reasons survivors approach me instead of them, or more accurately, that I’ve had more than one survivor tell me speaking to me made them feel better than any prior conversation, which pushes my ability to gather and finalize reports to be higher than average.
Also, this is intended to be a discussion on rape and EA’s handling of it, not on emotions. I downvoted to get the conversation back on track.