Two days ago, my mother asked me if I thought I was aggressive when I stepped away from a man who invaded my personal space. I said yes, I probably had been, but if he was a good man he would understand I was uncomfortable. She said she worried she had made me afraid with her history, with telling me too many stories of her past. I told her I wasn\u2019t afraid. I told her I was aware. I didn\u2019t tell her I was angry.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the president signed a bill to defund abortions.<\/p>\n
The comments told women just to keep their legs shut, as if there weren\u2019t at least two parties involved in making a baby.<\/p>\n
A man said not to take out the pain of rape on a baby by ending its life, that he had known someone who carried the child and raised her rapist\u2019s child as her own.<\/p>\n
Today I read articles for class about anger. This seminar is all about emotions and how to perceive them, how to write them. We\u2019re focused on anger right now. In some ways, I wish we weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
I read about a woman unable to get a college to see her as anything but a non-white, but not allowed to complain about the whiteness and anti-female edge to anything they did. It wasn\u2019t acceptable. It was complaining. And no one listens to complaints.<\/p>\n
I read how college students are being raped and colleges do nothing to the assailants, while the victims are harassed.<\/p>\n
I read about Uma Thurman\u2019s utmost anger and inability to speak without fury seeping into every word.<\/p>\n
And I read about how even now, women are only viewed as objects that can birth children.<\/p>\n
So yes. I think I\u2019m angry. I think I\u2019m aggressive. Because I\u2019m older now and I cannot just sit here and pretend this shit doesn\u2019t get to me. I don\u2019t want a man near me, so I move away, and I\u2019m purposeful when I do so. Don\u2019t come that close to me,<\/em> I say. Because it makes me uncomfortable and if you do it again, I won\u2019t remain quiet about it. <\/em>A good guy should understand his proximity isn\u2019t comfortable to someone he doesn\u2019t know. He has no right to be that close. He has no right to my body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two days ago, my mother asked me if I thought I was aggressive when I stepped away from a man who invaded my personal space. I said yes, I probably had been, but if he was a good man he would understand I was uncomfortable. She said she worried she…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[283],"tags":[438,272,435,241,158,157,12,376,238,437,436,243,37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27tjX-kB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}