Events That Require Documentation

Ignorance Among Men

  I can safely say that any female over the age of 15 in a city with a population over 4,000 has some idea of what is going to happen next. Perhaps some of the men of this world don't know that hanging out of a car window and shouting 'whore' to a girl who is walking on a sidewalk she traced many times before, and can map it out in five minutes flat is degrading. Perhaps some of the men of the world, who aren't really men at all don't know that sexuallizing women from car windows is infact a punishable crime. One that could make sure you have to distance yourself from schools and everyone in the area will be able to know exactly what kind of low life scum you are. This kind of assault isn't tied to any one race and doesn't even have to do with what you wore. I got called from a car while walking my dog in a XL Bob Ross shirt and a white and grey flannel tied around my waist. I was wearing this to hide my body, hoping I'd be safe from the eyes that peer out at me from the car windows but on the very day I took extra precautions to make sure I was hidden, that I was 'safe' I got called something that I could never be. I would love to tell you all the gory ways I pictured for that white man's face to end up in pieces but no doubt, when the women read this, and the men who have but an ounce of dignity know exactly what I would picture... I am sorry, women of this world that we are doomed to look behind our backs, to walk down streets we loved only to be emotionally beaten on it, I'm sorry for the little girls who were told from a young age that this world hated them and that it was their responsibility to make sure they weren't subject to something that was already pinned on their back like a target. And to the men who are actually men, forgive us if we seem shy, if we don't open up to you like a beautiful flower in bloom, we've come to expect the worse, prove us wrong. And to the man, who isn't really a man, I hope you experience every scenario I've played out in my head for you.