“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.
Más allá de toda la guasada de este tema, también es un signo de estos tiempos ansiosos. Tenía que ser campeón, no se podía esperar a que lo fuera por las buenas, había que tener rápido el titular, el tuit, el logro que se esperaba, “a lo que vino”, el círculo que se cierra, la historia que se quiso contar.
Vamos a 8 títulos por temporada porque no se soporta la ansiedad de estar 3 meses sin un éxito y un fracaso, sin tener que echar al DT, al presidente y a medio plantel.
Necesitamos estrellas que se sumen en la cancha, en el escritorio o en un pasquín porque hay que sumar y sumar y sumar aunque no se tenga ni idea de qué se suma. Lo importante es cargar al otro, subir un tuit cada 6 horas festejando un campeonato de carton. Mear al resto, no importa cómo, mearlos a todos.
Está todo enfermo, podrido, arruinado y devastado.