Things Men Will Never Know

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Men will never know what it’s like to walk down the street an object. They will never know what it is to be a gorgeous young woman walking down the street alone at night fearing rape. Men will never understand, no matter their attempts at cognition, feigned or genuine. Never will they know what it’s like to fear for your safety – for the safety of your reproductive organs and their privacy, their sovereignty. Men will never know what it is to live beneath a leer that never breaks for sleep.

And if you own a bike shop and are a man, take note: when a pair of humans walk into your shop and one of them happens to be a woman, don’t avoid eye contact. Resist the patriarchal urge of the privileged gender; resist assuming decisions are only made by men. And while you resist – or try to – I’ll be in the corner of your shop making vomit art. And it will be in the shape of a womb.