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As someone who has been labeled with this narrative multiple times throughout the years, I’ve felt inspired to push back against it.

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Yet buried in my heart remains a wish to understand
Are your sins forgiven because you’re a man?

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Life can be a struggle and there will inevitably be tough times, but you will survive them. You are loved and this world needs you and your unique contributions.

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Here’s why Hannah Baker herself deserved a damn tape.

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How often do we feel the spoken and unspoken question asked, “Who are you to suffer–who are you to cry trauma or claim hardship–when there’s x y and z happening in the world?”

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She’s willing to sacrifice anything except the vision she has of herself in her mind as morally flawless.

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I wanted to pretend that the entire incident had not happened, and even though I thought about it constantly, I kept up my outwards appearances and no one was the wiser.

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Every morning I drive to work and every morning I pass this poster. Every morning it burns into my eyes with its declarative words, “YOU DID NOT DESERVE IT.” and I know what it’s talking about, we all do.

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I, too
have loved men
who named my mouth
ashtray

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Women throughout time, have been subjected and oppressed by sexual violence at a level that most men will admittedly never experience, but if it’s important to give victimized women a voice, that same voice should be granted to men as well.