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Fade into me

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Laura - 24 - Unorthodox
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I’m isolating myself again. I’m not talking to people. I’m becoming numb again. I’m falling out of love with my favorite things. My only desires are to hide or cry. I feel weary. I feel broken. I feel inhuman. 

I feel like my soul left me. I feel like my personality and everything that makes me who I am has gone somewhere else. They left me to be a shell until I can find a way to get them back. The only thing I can feel is hopelessness. 

The worst part is that I’m not alone with these feelings. The love of my life is struggling with the exact same issues. Because he is a stronger person than I am, he tries to put those pains aside for me and comfort me, be there for me.  I have been able to be there for him but today I feel like I'm not a person. I’m just an existence. A mass that breathes in and out, leaks water from its eyes, and sleeps. 

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pleatedjeans

Three cheers for these guys [x]

This is how to be a good ally.

Using their Bro-ness for good, not evil

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ladyflowdi

So a tiny story: on Black Friday a few weeks ago I went to Gamestop to buy my brother a game for Christmas, and I noticed this older man was watching me like a hawk. He was loitering around the front of the store without really buying anything, and every time I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye he was looking at me. I went to look at the PS4 games, and he was looking at something right behind me. I checked out the Nintendo games, and he was looking at them too. I was the only woman in the store, by the way.

By the time I got in line to pay he was loitering at the front of the store again, and I just had that feeling that he was going to try and take the game I just bought, or steal my purse, as soon as I left the store. OR, he was going to try and follow me home. And I know I don’t have to explain that terror to any woman reading this, but all I could think was that I’m in this Gamestop alone with at least twenty other men and something is about to happen. I’m beginning to freak out, to the point where I’ve just pulled my pepper spray out of my purse and into the pocket of my coat. 

So there I am, next in line to pay, and there is this GIGANTIC dudebro right behind me, and I say gigantic as a 6 foot tall woman. He says, “Ma’am? Don’t be offended, but would it be alright if I walked you to your car?” and I was like “Are you serious?” and he was like “There are some weird guys in here right now. Have you noticed that guy watching you?” and then I showed the dudebro the pepper spray in my pocket and he was like “Right on. Would you still let me walk you to your car?” and I said yes.

So I paid, and waited while HE paid, and he walked me to my car. And just as I was getting in, the weird guy who’d been loitering came out of the store, saw me and my dudebro, and turned around and walked away in the opposite direction. 

In short: men who recognize that women are unsafe in dark alleys, college campuses, grocery stores, gas stations and retail stores and do something about it are the kind of quality men that this world needs more of.

Please for the love of god yes.

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