You keep going to school because there are so many adults there with the power to validate or reject you. Rejection is best; it gives you a chance to be a better girl. You ask people, “Are you sure you like me?” You want strangers to promise to love you forever. You don’t trust that the people who do love you won’t change their minds. You bully ( Read more... )

Okay, um, to the, like. .05 people who read this journal and might have been thinking of going to see Splice:

You probably want to read this post before you go.  (Triggeriffic!)  Definite spoilers for the whole thing, but, uh, I think you'd rather be spoiled than be squicked and triggered all over the damn place.

I was actually really interested in ( Read more... )

This? This is what's wrong with the whole fucking world, when middle class, straight (and generally white) male "norms" are touted as fact. When people who have endured sexual assault are actually, incredibly nicely taking time to talk with someone reasonably and informatively about how this POV can be damaging not just to them, but to people ( Read more... )