How is it abuse though? Sharing your feelings is not careerism, it’s being human
Ok, I will post my thoughts on it.
Considering noticeable portion of woman experienced some trauma, if your ideal expectation is around 45-50 percent representation in politics, dozens of them would be in congress/whatever legislative body in %country%. If every single one of them telling their stories is abuse of trauma (and then, logically they shouldn’t share them then), then that’s just perpetuating patriarchy frankly. Person can not abuse their own feelings or trauma (at least you cannot conceivably ever know, if they are acting in good faith or not), only others can use them and thus abuse trauma. Thus having strong judgment on personal stories is exceedingly alienating, in my view, you will throw the baby with the water so too speak, or your judgment trying to separate the two (good/bad faith) would be clouded by other factors.
Every politician probably have played with other people feelings, including communist ones, be it either rousing speeches or backroom shenanigans.
Judge the actions, not stories or feelings.
