Its funny how 2 major cases are enough to scare men of marriage but when 1200 cases against women are recorded daily, suddenly they are told “not all men", hypocrisy is loud and clear.
There is a very specific female fatigue that comes from knowing exactly what is happening, explaining exactly what is happening, being told you are overreacting, and then watching exactly what is happening happen with excellent punctuality.
In reality, progressive feminist‘s only objection to what is happening here is that NFL cheerleaders are not paid a living wage and are often sexually harassed at the workplace. We literally like and support these women more than y’all do, we see them as workers with rights.
“I don’t understand why women don’t just report it if it really happened.”
When I was 19, I reported mine. I had bruises. Hospital photos. Text messages of him apologizing the next morning. My friends drove me to the station because I could barely stop shaking. I thought evidence would make it simple. I thought truth would be enough.
Months later, I was the one on trial. His lawyer printed my Instagram photos and held them up in court. Asked why I wore crop tops. Asked why I drank that night. Asked why I didn’t scream louder. He replayed my police interview and pointed out every time I hesitated, every time I cried, every time my timeline wasn’t perfectly linear. “If it was traumatic,” he said, “why can’t she remember clearly?”
Sitting there while strangers debated my pain like it was a group project felt like being stripped again. My messages were projected on a screen. My body was described in detail. My character was picked apart like that was the real crime.
He walked out on bail. I walked out with panic attacks.
That’s why some women don’t report. Because even with bruises. Even with screenshots. Even when you do everything “right.” You still have to survive the assault twice, once in private, and once in public, just to maybe be believed.
I remember how my ex used to beg me to be more aggressive and toxic with him. At the end of the day I think it’s a misdirected, distorted desire for passion and movement within a relationship. Imperceptive, low vibrational people do not know the difference between running in circles chasing their tail vs a spiral upwards evolution. If you showed them an actual loving, passionate, dynamic relationship, they would likely see it as boring due to the stability and loyalty. Those with 2D vision only see passion in chaos, not depth.
I said, “I’m just a girl” to an Italian man and he looked at me like I was crazy and said, “you’re a powerful woman” and now I’ll never use that phrase again
Every time someone says, “Go to Afghanistan and do your feminism there,” I hear an unintentional confession. You admit women are being oppressed. You acknowledge injustice against women. exist.