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Following up on the prior post: my cycle of understanding, and trying to deal with, rape culture.
And then I just had the best possible conversation about rape culture that I could expect right now, and I feel better—and somewhat calmer, if only because I'm exhausted—as a result.
I need to write a post about this sometime—about becoming intellectually aware of rape culture, about becoming emotionally aware of rape culture, about how I use the later to internalize the former generally to my own harm, about both the guilt and justification associated with that self-centered response, about how recognizing, repeating, and explaining this cycle has made it a little easier to deal with each time, about how the end point is sadness and fear, but not depression and terror, although I haven't reached a solution yet either.
But for right now, I need some Pokémon time.
Yes, all this from just a catcall. Because it never is just a catcall.
I need to write a post about this sometime—about becoming intellectually aware of rape culture, about becoming emotionally aware of rape culture, about how I use the later to internalize the former generally to my own harm, about both the guilt and justification associated with that self-centered response, about how recognizing, repeating, and explaining this cycle has made it a little easier to deal with each time, about how the end point is sadness and fear, but not depression and terror, although I haven't reached a solution yet either.
But for right now, I need some Pokémon time.
Yes, all this from just a catcall. Because it never is just a catcall.