softertogether:

the fear of being attacked with your girlfriend is really different than the fear of being attacked in general. i can’t describe how heartbreaking it is, how fear of being seen together makes us act in ways that hurt each other, how realistically unsafe we always are.

man. we were just having some food at a fast food restaurant and this man next to us started to talk loudly about “disgusting lesbians” (like we didn’t even do anything, didn’t hold hands or nothing) and my gf started going off at him and i asked her to please be quiet because like i don’t want her to get stabbed…? like obviously that’s a situation where she’s very much in the right to punch the guy in the face if she so wishes but i’m just scared for her safety and would rather be quiet in that situation than have something happen to her