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@rowanblanchard : Trying to not be tricked into publicly disclosing your own history of sexual trauma right now is hard. You know I believe you and I hope you believe me but more just take every survivor fucking seriously. Having a forced proximity to the word survivor has felt so volatile and invasive because it feels as if that word has been claimed by our abusers too simply by them inflicting it upon us. I am not sure what I want to be called. Victim feels futile but I do think it implies we’re exhausted. I am not trying to fall into a pointless cynicism but I am insisting on admitting a truth: I resent men and the various gendered people they have influenced and enabled who have touched, molested, beaten, assaulted, harassed, stalked, drugged, and raped people I know and the people I don’t. Cis men are violent and dangerous and until numbers prove me wrong I won’t be able to not make statements that can be read as vague. I am too tired, which seems stupid as I am so young. But living under and reaping the effects of the patriarchy daily feels at once aging and quite literally life shortening. There’s no place in America you can be a woman or a queer person and be safe from sexual violence. There’s varying degrees, but there’s no total certainty. I will be turning comments off on this post because I have no energy left to serve as a reddit forum for incels and rapists and men who haven’t assaulted anyone and think I care a lot. On the other side, I don’t want to be read as brave or as a voice of many or like I am somehow an activist for stating the above. I am honestly just tired and my mother is too. Sending love to every person who didn’t ask to be a survivor. Lighting a candle. Rest.