“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.
In Franz Kafka’s letter to his father, he wrote “I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little. But I was little too”
JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
Karla Sofia Gascón responds to Katya Zamolochikova over Emilia Perez criticisms.
“She doesn’t have something special, something different. She’s not pretty.”
the pitt metió la segunda temporada en menos de diez meses desde la primera, y ahora ya confirmaron la tercera antes del estreno de la segunda, este es el servicio que queremos y no una temporada cada tres años o más como hacen las de netflix
“I’m standing in the formula aisle, and I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.”
At the grocery store, a new mother sees a SINGLE can priced between $50–$70 — more than a WEEK of groceries.
"They jack up the price, lobby AGAINST paid leave, and FORCE you to buy it anyway.”
AI access is free or cheap now to get you dependent on it, so they can later start charging you — and you’ll have no option but to cough up, because you’ll have forgotten how to live without it.
So… maybe just skip that whole future crisis, and don’t use it / stop using it now?
ran out of my meds last night because *obviously* i forgot to go to CVS so now i’m moody and bratty and i burnt my nuggies so my husband is now going to mcdonald’s of his own offering instead of just making me new ones and that’s the type of love i’ve always needed
there’s an entire episode of Black Mirror that i have seen ONCE and refused to watch again that very explicitly shows why this is a horrific idea. truly evil and sinister