I use case study analysis as my method in order to provide a careful appraisal of the dominant responses in church communities and in digital spaces to sexual violence victim-survivors, investigating how mature empathy is utilized in the #MeToo movement. Also, my commitment to drawing attention to minority groups means the selective stories in this work focus on transnational settings, (im)migrants', and relatively more vulnerable people's stories, that are often missing even in the #MeToo movement. This focus will help us attend to the distinctive vulnerability and invisibility of those communities. Digital space can be a powerful tool to disrupt monopolized power by democratizing the appropriated power of story-making, bypassing the gatekeepers of heteropatriarchy in partnership with mature empathy. As bystanders are exposed to the narratives of distant others' suffering cries in the aftermath of sexual violence, the bystanders' varied empathic affects can be evoked by distress cues from victim-survivors.

This work aims to encourage communities to build a social and communal imaginary, which may bring about ordinary praxis and thus build mature empathic community and a just caring society. I call for a radical imagination of how we can foster mature communal empathy in such an envisioned society, i.e. an empathic just caring society, that we have never fully experienced, where mature communal empathy becomes the utmost moral value among the members and communities.