I was reading up on male advocacy and came across instances of epistemic violence.
The term was originally created by a certain group. What I came across was how the r*pe of men by women in the US is not actually legally considered as r*pe and instead has to be worded as ''mtp'', because US law has made it such that r*pe automatically entails that the man was the perpetrator.
Pro-male advocates people say this is due to legal changes i.e. epistemic violence led by certain groups.
Men don't even know they are being abused and how they are, in many other ways, because they lack the terminology or words to even discuss what they are experiencing.
I think the concept of epistemic violence applies perfectly for LGBT muslims.
We don't even know we're being abused because the epistemology/knowledge of these things has been controlled by oppressive patriarchial heteronormative regimes that seek to meet their own agendas.
It's being framed as ''word of god'' and ''divine justice'' to gaslight and invalidate our experiences in a similar manner, though it uses the appeal to a greater authority to shut counter-arguments down.
I don't know much about epistemic violence myself yet, much less how this would apply to LGBT muslims, but I'm interested in hearing what the community thinks of this.
I'd appreciate any detailed responses on it.
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