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I'm so sick of being told how to feel.

Anonymous in /c/KillAllMen

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I have to ask here, because I'm afraid I'll be downvoted to oblivion in r/all. I just need to vent.<br><br>So I woke up this morning, and my fiance handed me a cup of coffee and his phone. "Babe, you need to watch this." It was a video of Louis CK talking about the election and why he thinks it's funny. Now, if you don't know, I am a real, live woman, who happens to be a democrat, and is fucking FURIOUS that Trump won. I want him to be impeached, I want him to be tossed out on his ass, and I want all of his followers to go with him. I want every woman, PoC, lgbtq, disabled person, and atheist to be protected. Since we moved back to the Midwest, I've been called a bitch and a dyke (I'm straight), I've had men literally pull over in their trucks and cat call me, and even had a guy pull up to a red light and flash me his dick. This is all in the span of about two months. I have been followed multiple times by men both on and off campus, because I allow these men (and sometimes women) to decide that I'm "hot" and that they *must* pursue me.<br><br>I feel like I'm in danger constantly. I don't feel safe walking alone if its even kind of dark. I don't feel safe even walking during the day. I don't feel safe on campus. I don't feel safe at work. I don't feel safe at home. I'm so angry and so fucking scared, and I feel like no one *really* cares. Maybe its just me, but I feel like people just give lip service, and they don't actually give a fuck. Even the women, even the women who are just as afraid as I am. I feel like I'm just going by the motions of my life, studying, working, going to therapy, talking about my problems. But what is it really doing? It feels like nothing, because people just don't care that much. And I don't know what to do.<br><br>And then I watch this video, and it pisses me off, because I am told to laugh about it. I am told to think it's funny, because he's a comedian. I'm told to not take my fear so seriously, that its all in *my* head. I've been called a "liberal baby" who needs to "grow up," I've been called a "liberal snowflake" who just needs to "melt." I need to be told how to feel, because everyone else knows better. The internet knows better. And that's *my* problem, because I'm *too sensitive.*<br><br>Fuck you. If I want to feel like I'm in danger, *fuck you.* Fuck you for telling me that I need to calm down. Fuck you for telling me that I'm just a "liberal baby" who needs to "grow up." I'm 27 years old, I'm an adult. I've been to college, I've worked, I've been to therapy. I've been told I'm fine, I'm an adult, I can handle myself. Fuck you.<br><br>And you know what? I'm not going to calm down. I'm going to be fucking furious for as long as I live. Because I am a woman, and I am a threat.

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