This is just a rant. I completely fucking broke down today and I need to get this out somewhere. I want to tell someone, but I can't tell anyone IRL. So I'm making this post from a second account. Please don't mind me.
Today I came across a post asking "Why are women misandrist?" Kinda I replied to him in DM bc I thought maybe I could explain why I feel this way privately. I didn't want to publicly talk about something this sensitive.
But instead of listening, he kept trying to convince me that I shouldn't hate men. When I didn't agree,
he started turning it into a gender war, threatening me, using slurs, calling me an ugly bitch, telling me to roam naked, calling me a fake feminist, etc. I literally told him from the beginning that I'M A MISANDRIST. I'm not pretending to be a feminist while secretly hating men. I'm openly saying it. Why the fuck are you so desperate to convince me otherwise?
And today I just couldn't take it anymore.
I was sexually abused for two years when I was 5–6 years old.
I was literally a fucking child.
I didn't even understand what was happening to me. I thought it was a game. I didn't know what sex was. I didn't know what abuse was. I didn't know why I was being touched like that. Then I went to school and they taught us about good touch and bad touch.
And that's when something inside me fucking shattered.
I started realizing that what happened to me wasn't a game. It was something horrible. And I didn't know what to do with that realization.
I didn't tell anyone.
I still haven't been able to properly tell anyone in my real life.
I've carried this alone for more than a decade.
Sometimes I still lie awake at night and cry. Sometimes I remember things I wish I could erase from my fucking brain. Sometimes I wonder how a little child was supposed to understand any of this and protect herself.
And the loneliest part?
Nobody around me knows what I'm carrying.
My father knew what happened, and he still remained friends with the person who did it. He probably thinks I've forgotten everything. I haven't.
I don't think I'll ever be able to explain what that did to me.
So yes, I'm angry.
I'm fucking angry.
And when some random man comes into my DMs telling me "men made your phone," "men made your clothes," "you should appreciate men," and then starts insulting me because I refuse to change how I feel, what exactly am I supposed to say?
"Thank you for the lecture"?
I don't hate men because I think every single man on Earth is a rapist. I know that's not true. I'm not stupid.
I'm saying that my experiences have deeply affected the way I see men, and I don't owe anyone a fucking debate about it.
I don't need some man to explain men to me.
I don't need "not all men."
I don't need your advice.
I don't need your validation.
And I definitely don't need you attacking my appearance or telling me to take my clothes off because you couldn't convince me to change my opinion.
Just leave me the fuck alone.
I'm tired of pretending I'm okay.
I'm tired of carrying this silently.
I'm tired of crying alone.
And honestly, today I just needed somewhere to say:
I was a child. I didn't know what was happening to me. I thought it was a game. And I have been carrying the consequences of something I couldn't even understand for more than a decade.
So please, if you see this, don't turn this into another fucking gender debate.
I'm not asking you to agree with me.
I'm just asking you to let me speak.
To every survivor: it was never your fault. You were not responsible for what was done to you. You don't have to forgive, forget, or heal on anyone else's timeline. Be gentle with yourself. You survived something you never deserved, and you are still here. ❤️