sheepish

forcing my brain to get back into learning and growing is such an interesting thing. at first sometimes i couldn't believe this was the same brain that got me through undergrad but slowly but surely it's coming back. i read something once about how focus is basically like a muscle and i've never felt the truth of that more than now. i thought the best years of my brain were behind me but i've still got more to do

caterpillars in the chrysalis on day 3

This is actually a really hopeful way of looking at it.

Sometimes I feel like I’m only meant for myself

im sorry but you do genuinely just have to be fucking stupid to think that the fact that men commit 97% of all violent says nothing about society or the average male. A smart person, upon hearing such a statistic, would take extra caution around men. A man with a heart and a brain would understand why women are cautious around him. Men who retaliate against women's fear with violent outbursts were already violent, entitled, and prone to hurting women regardless of how she treats him. After all, if a woman being scared of you makes you angry, it is only because you felt entitled to her presence and to her being open to you. Men are not sexist in response to how we treat them, what a stupid fucking idea. Women aren't born fearing and distrusting men, it is a lesson learned through repeated pain & humiliation.

Once women in your society stop wanting to birth children, your society is rightfully brought to an end. Your society is no longer compatible with life. Women are the natural administrators of life. You don’t get to tell them to create more of it. You don’t get to reign over the gods of life.