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They will call a woman crazy before they admit that a man is
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In my thirties, I got pepper spray It’s bedazzled to make it feel less terrifying than the reality is I got it because I worked briefly at a gas station as a cashier last year it was attached to a casino with a bar all I could think of was working at a place with…
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There’s another man who allegedly abused his wife that’s coming out with a new movie I’m majoring in screenwriting and every time I think maybe I should talk more about film there’s another one, smiling, up on the screen and I keep on worrying about winding up in a cult or tied to some horrible…
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I spent a week in my room bleeding from something that was deemed a biological necessity and curled up in bed watching as the news talked of terrible men doing terrible things and no one did anything and the only thing that kept me from screaming was the small apartment that I lived in and…
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Your thoughts and prayers are with the victims Victims do not want thoughts and prayers They want justice crowns toppled heads off French Revolution justice To sleep at night knowing the person that hurt them can no longer hurt anyone else not sitting comfortably in a palace or in positions of power I want your…
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I’ll choose the monster any day because at least the monster might choose me who knows what a man might do
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All of these men saying that if these were regular men they’d be in prison I had to leave my home when I was three father showed up with a gun when he found my sister, mother, and me, kidnapped my sister and me, the police did nothing, because he technically had custody, had family…
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I was in my thirties, when I learned that depending on where you were, they call wars different things, In America, we have a war called the Mexican American War, the war for Texas, and I, well I am simply an Irish American woman with only a vague understanding of it all, but I think…
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Think of only happy thoughts something to make you smile absolutely nothing is wrong everything is fine my town looks the same it’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine I do not wake up panicking I don’t live there anymore my state is fine nothing is fine I still have old classmates there and I wake…
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It’s the friend that saw it happen at a party and said nothing It’s the bouncer at the club that knows their history and still allows them entry the employer who keeps them hired even though they have the reports in their HR desk It’s the cops that didn’t lock them up the first time…