Here's the most amazing thing though... How does the typical "I was raped" story suddenly get more valuable and worth everyone's upvote when it IS actually real, compared to when it's convincingly faked?
What actually changes about the value of that content? That's what I'd like you to think over.
Why can't we gloss over those posts and say "you were raped, so now what?" in cold blood and gotta instantly get protective of these women, smashing the upvote button for something that really doesn't contribute anything to Steemit.
Let's assume it's true - ok, she got raped. Maybe she can go talk to a therapist, work it out. She is not a fucking hero of anything just because bad things happened to her in life, and we are absolute idiots for upvoting or tolerating that stuff. It's literally preying on the primal male instinct to protect females in the group, in order to leverage the resulting social capital and turn it into steem dollars.
I agree. It's just life. And life is not fair or easy peasy most of the time. But we don't get any medals for just living. It's life.