“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.
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Department of Justice now admits they removed over 47,000 files in which some included allegations against Donald Trump.
It's a goddamn cover-up.
I'm going to piss some men off with this, but the reason a lot of your parents and grandparents stayed married so long is because the women in those generations were financially trapped.
When a woman makes her own money, the only thing a man can truly offer her is how he treats her.
That's why there's a male loneliness epidemic.
More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.
“Just eat whole foods. Avoid anything in a package. Eat more fruits and vegetables.”
No shit, Sherlock. Most of us would benefit from eating more fruits and veggies. But advice like this skips the most important question: who is actually doing the work?
Who is planning the meals?
Who is grocery shopping, often multiple times a week because produce spoils?
Who is budgeting for foods that cost more and don’t last as long?
Who is washing, chopping, cooking, packing, and cleaning,
on top of paid work, childcare, caregiving, and everything else?
Because a raw bell pepper isn’t a meal.
“Just eat better” ignores the very real time, cost, access, skills, and invisible labor required to make that happen. And let’s be honest, this labor disproportionately falls on women.
Nutrition advice that ignores mental load, time scarcity, food environments, and gendered labor isn’t just unhelpful. It’s lazy.
Health isn’t just about what you eat. It’s also about who is expected to make it happen.
🚨 BREAKING: AOC just called out the media for spending years fixated on Biden’s cognition while barely touching Trump’s very real cognitive decline and escalating erratic behavior.
None of this is normal. And pretending it is, is journalistic malpractice.
Because a handful of billionaires are exploiting every aspect of our survival for profit — and if you complain about or try to change it; the politicians they pay off, the media they own, and the bots on the social media platforms they control, call you “radical.”
Ah, yes - several:
📀 Southernplayalisticcadillacmuzik
📀 Late Registration, College Dropout, Graduation (idc, it was a better time and a better Kanye argue w/ ya mama)
📀 Black on Both Sides
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