BOOMER: "I retired at 55 with a full pension."
YOU: "That's not possible anymore."
BOOMER: "Why not?"
YOU: "Pensions don't exist. I have a 401k."
BOOMER: "Just save more."
YOU: "I'm paying $2,000 rent, $500 student loans, $400 car payment."
BOOMER: "You're spending too much."
YOU: "On what? Survival?"
BOOMER: "I bought a house for $50,000 in 1975."
YOU: "Houses are $450,000 now."
BOOMER: "You should've bought sooner."
YOU: "I was 22 with $40,000 in debt."
BOOMER: "We had it harder."
YOU: "You had pensions and affordable housing."
YOU: "I have neither."
BOOMER: "Stop complaining."
The system changed. You just refuse to see it.
This is the judge who ruled that I was not allowed to speak my abuser's name out loud. Forever. Past, present, and future.
If I wanted to warn another woman about the man who hurt me, I faced $10,000 in fines and jail time for each warning.
It's adorable that he thought I wouldn't fight back with everything I had.
It took me 441 days to get it overturned. And now I make up for lost time by making him famous. Meet Judge Pickerill. The man who stole my voice to protect a serial predator.