We are too loud, we are too strident. We should protest, but gently, softly. (Not unironically, very much like the sweet, girlish voice of Dr. Blasey Ford, whom they politely pretended to listen to, before ignoring.)
If you’re like me, you may be feeling pretty raw right now, about the talk about the sexual assault by then 17 year old drunk Brett Kavanaugh, on 15 year old Christine Blasey, now Dr. Blasey Ford. All the people opining about how “if it was a real assault, she’d have reported it right away,”…
I need to find a way to accept the reality that when I put my words and sentences on the screen, they will not be perfect, gleaming pearls of my imagination.
Your desire to touch someone does not override their right to not be touched.
I am among the people lucky enough to have been born able-bodied. Like a lot of us, I have generally taken for granted that my body would work the way I wanted, when I wanted it to. And sometimes got snippy when it didn’t. Hello, entitlement! Oh, there have been minor inconveniences. I inherited both…