when i'm mad from my perspective but i can also see their perspective so now i’m carrying double the emotional weight and being eaten away by my anger and empathy
Some of y’all think abuse has to look like screaming, bruises, and police reports every single day. A person can destroy your nervous system through intimidation, control, manipulation, humiliation, and unpredictability alone.
i love when people do photo dumps especially on their private accounts like yes please show me the mundane, light passing through your window, a sign on the road you liked, a crying selfie, a bowl of what you cooked
Invalidating someone’s struggle because you can’t relate to it is actually a sign of low emotional intelligence. You can be grateful for your own experience and still show sympathy and support to others; that’s how we’re supposed to treat each other in the first place :)
Unfortunately I think maturing as a woman is realising that misogyny is so ingrained in everything and quite literally impossible to avoid. It's in our media, it's in our light hearted conversations. It's in the expectation that your mum will have dinner ready. It's the man staring down your shirt on the train. It's in the jokes you overhear at the pub. It's that one line in your favourite TV show. It's your male relatives sitting down after Christmas dinner. It's the conversation you have with a 'well meaning' man at your hospitality job. We're tragically used to it.
Women are sharing live locations, checking the backseats of cars, carrying their keys between their knuckles and holding their hands over their drinks.
Men are doing 3 hour podcasts about how unfair it is that women don't smile at them.
youth is never coming back.. so you better take pictures of sunlight coming into the house, plant a tree, roam the city without a purpose, follow the moon