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Men

 I’ve always been scared of people. And lately, my worries have shifted more heavily towards men. It’s probably the media that keeps exposing me to men's bad behavior. To how even the closest men in our lives could harm us—could kill us. It’s probably how the media keeps showing me how boyfriends killed their girlfriends for trying to break up with them, how husbands killed their wives for money, how fathers abuse their daughters. It’s how often news tell stories about online dating gone wrong, how there’s a probable chance of getting kidnapped, raped, and killed when you choose the wrong person. It’s probably also because of my own experience. How I need to ignore people whistling and calling when I walk. How some of them get upset when they get ignored. How I need to bear sexist remarks because I am way younger and I should not talk back to the elderly. How I need to tell them “No” several times and even that isn’t guaranteed to stop them. I don’t go out often, and when I do, I w...