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Savagely Hilarious: Samantha Bee on Brett Kavanaugh's So-Called Ruined Life

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BlueGrl219/28/2018 12:08:56 pm PDT

re: #629 dangerman

august 25 i wrote this post
it’s about how, as a man, i am very careful when i go running.
and was in response to mollie tibbetts being attacked while running and then murdered.

- i dont fear for my own self …. i dont have to mostly
- it’s for how i may appear to others
men, women, children, young, old, … in the dark of early morning

what i do
what i dont do….

something i hadn’t thought of, that this list, “through a woman’s eyes’ contains is eye contact

i never make eye contact while running. i always look down and away - no matter who the other person is. a guy who looks like me running toward you is threatening enough.

i could literally pass people i would recognize and not realize it

i still shout out when coming up from behind and i say morning or how you doing or some encouragement to everyone

and yet….2018 america

I noticed this week that I have developed my old tics again.

I startle very easily if a man I do not know extremely well touches me. I will jump and move away immediately. Not a little twitch, it’s obvious.

And I will not make eye contact with a man. Will not do it. I look down. I go submissive. That is NOT like me at all. But I’ve been doing it again.

This week has been fucking brutal. Brutal.