A Tale of Me 4 and On

Published October 17th, 2017 in 2000-2011 | No Comments ยป

Yesterday's social media posts were swarming with me too stories of sexual assault which counted to varying degrees, from the wolf whistle to all out rape. I got in on it as it seemed the perfect time to commiserate but honestly at the end of the day, all of that, that which I knew--was probably only alarming to a small faction of men ignorant to their own gender and the ways in which they manipulate things. And I wrote my thing about my jesus year rape, which, truth be told, I am not sure I even wrote about before. Maybe I did, maybe I alluded to it, maybe I just don't want to think about that shit anymore. As it is, given my initial experiences with sex were kind of warped (in ways I don't really want to discuss)--I learned long ago how to extract parts of my own history to not hurt myself or those around me. You do kind of separate yourself into pieces, a kind of before and after version of yourself you really never fully imagined. And I have been splintered several times in a lifetime of people who abused my trust, people who I have a small ...

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