Twitter is not the best place to have your idealized version of your family shattered for you.

I am not defending the actions or anything, that thread makes me uncomfortable too, but like. Guys. You could have just... ignored it?

All of us have had rose tinted glasses on for our parents at some point. Even now, when you know, some of the things your parents are doing are messed up, you let them pass? She was naive to think this should be shared on a public platform and romanticized, but guys -

maybe quote tweeting it with "FEMINSIMM" is perhaps not the best way to respond to it. Most people don't want strangers angrily yelling at them about their parents' problematic pasts. And even if people are wrong about romanticizing it, they still don't want strangers yelling at

them about how their parents are pedophiles (even if they are.)

And for fuck's sake, stop arguing this with them like a twitter debate on feminism. They aren't approaching it from a theoretical point of view, they are personally invested in this. Nothing productive is coming out

of you proving how correct your politics is.

There is a difference between engaging a general topic of discussion in society and like... someone's family. Specially someone's family to them. This would have been different had you been speaking to her dad directly and holding

him accountable/or talking to him about his actions. Children don't function that way about their parents. And a conversation about not repeating your parents' mistakes isn't had with angry strangers on the internet through 280 characters.

You can also have a separate conversation about how a *lot* of those things in that thread are messed up amongst your own friends/followers.

But really, what are you hoping to achieve by angrily quote tweeting her.

And what are you expecting out of it?

(Insert a little bit of sense and empathy into your correct politics when dealing with human beings, not theoretical concepts. Children aren't responsible for their parents' pasts, and learning not to romanticize their parents is a process that shouldn't happen on twitter.)