Also I had a friend who was in a motorcycle accident and is still in recovery (it wasn't his fault, some dude in a pickup truck didn't signal or really slow down and turned left right in front of him and he hit the back end), he almost lost his leg but the surgery went really well.…Â
I was a lifeguard as summer gig during college. I went into the pool to make a save and the kid managed to get his arms around my neck. I knew how to handle this under most circumstances but the kid was bigger than me and had a good grip on me, and we were under the current of the…Â
"Do you know of better ways to behave, OTHER THAN TELLING PEOPLE TO BECOME INTIMATE WITH THOSE THEY ARE NOT ATTRACTED TO?" Can you tell that to the majority of straight men? What you're describing sounds almost exactly like a taste of how women feel ALL THE TIME.
@cats it was really really soon after I got that job and I was terrified of confrontation and just kinda stood there in shock until he was already gone
@melpomeneblue while I do think the white woman tears thing is legitimate, it is also a legitimate issue of the patriarchy that women are so victimized that that works, and that women are seen as helpless enough in order for them to be able to weaponize it. The problem with it, as…Â
@cats hey! It's been a while! Yeah like I said I know women of all sizes face the issue of not being taken seriously, I've just also noticed that depending on our physical appearance the dismissive response is different. Once I was trying to explain to a coworker why something he…Â
The fact that femininity is so looked down upon. If we want to be treated as equal, they assume that means we want to be masculine. Why can't I be feminine and still be equal?
If I say yes, imagine if the guy immediately started trying to convince me otherwise. So if I say no, it shouldn't be difficult not to do that then either.
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