I realized that all the friends that I already have in NY are women (which is amazing, don’t get me wrong). I’m coming from having these wonderful feminist men around me – who I can always call on for anything – to no men at all, and having to start all over with finding men [...]
after conducting a thorough study of the population, I have come to the conclusion that men are scum.
I have heard way too many stories lately of women I know, women in my family, getting physically abused by their husbands and shunned by their fathers. It’s terrifying. I feel like you can’t trust men that you just meet in places… but apparently you can’t really trust men you know, either. My aunt was [...]
all troops surrounding the heart, stand down
apparently i have no emotional self-defense. i could never lie to keep myself from getting hurt, or evidently not even for the sake of my self-respect. my only mode of operation, both in situations of emotional calm and panic, is to put myself out there completely and make myself vulnerable to the other person (whether [...]
