Art,

You're better than that response.

You write cogently and with passion and empathy.

One does not need to be raped or abducted to show empathy or outrage at another's abuse or murder.

Think John Donne's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls': Any person's (sic man's) death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

IOW, a contrarian opinion needs to be dealt with in a constructive respectful manner, and not with what has become a nauseating overused blanket assumption of 'privilege'.

And one should not have to defend said opinion with a disclosure of sexual abuse. That's way too private, n' est pas?