angry-grrl:

today i had lunch with a girl from my floor, and she was telling me this horrific story about when she was in fifth grade, she befriended this boy at a summer camp, and later when he confessed to her while they were swimming that he liked her, and she said she didn’t like him that way, he tried to drown her. it was horrifying to think that a boy as young as 10 yrs old could react so violently; although i can’t remember anything that horrible, it made me reflect on my own young encounters with boys: the ones who used to tease and intimidate me on the playground, throw their fists and pull my hair, grab at me and laugh. it’s scary to truly realize just how early boys/men absorb and act on their misogyny.

I worked at a theme park when I was 15/16. We always went on the slides and raced the go carts after hours. One night I beat a dude in a race. When we later went into the spa pool to relax, he tried to down me. It was terrifying, and I hate pools to this day because of it. There were 10-15 people there, no one tried to help me. And don’t even get me started on the time I was beating a guy at pool, so he smashed his cue on my hand when I took the last shot. Men HATE women. They hate us. And God forbid we reject them, or do better at something than them, because that is a potential death sentence for us.

(via cuddly-trash)