A bit weird out of context

I am a survivor of abuse. I know too many people who have been victims of sexual violence. I have been stalked, harassed, and improperly propositioned by adult males when I was a minor. I have triggers. I want warnings, and I want them clearly displayed.

I have pre-emptively banned aukestrel, cynatnite, and mara_snh for comments and entries made during Warnings Wank 2009 (link goes to metafandom's collection of entries responding to a debate on warnings that began in bandom a few days ago). More specifically, I banned them for comments and entries that perpetuated the damaging culture of silence around victims of rape and abuse, for victim-blaming, for abusive language, and for general unacceptable behavior.

I don't know these LJers. I don't care to know them, nor am I interested in hearing defenses of them. As far as I'm concerned, their actions are indefensible. It doesn't matter that they didn't direct their bile at me in particular, nor does it matter that I don't know anything about the rest of the content of their characters or their histories on LiveJournal or elsewhere. I don't care if they feed the hungry, clothe the naked, cure the sick, shelter the homeless, end wars, crusade against any and all other social injustices all on top of rescuing disabled and displaced orphans from burning buildings. They're banned anyway, and my only regret is not doing it the second I saw their behavior in action.

I once cut a person I'd known and loved since I was three years old out of my life and heart for victim-blaming and making offensive statements to another friend of mine when it had actual, meaningful consequences in my offline life. I'm really not going to lose any sleep over pre-emptively banning users who have shown that they cannot be trusted to act like human beings on the subjects of rape and abuse.

However, if you're losing sleep over my decision to ban them, it is Defriending Amnesty Day around here all day, every day. The door is that way, show yourself out.