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Why I’m So Fucking Angry About Politics
It’s not like anyone gives a damn or is listening but I keep wasting my time writing about it anyway
I and many other survivors have spent the best part of two decades sharing our stories and warning of what was to come politically. Society responded as they usually do: either we were accused of hating our parents and lying about things just to defame them, or we were blamed and told that there must be a reason this happened to us. Perhaps we were rebellious children that needed tough love. Anything but actually listen to us.
Part of the reason that the current political situation bothers me is because I feel unheard. Victims of severe abuse like mine have been warning about this for years because we’ve already lived it and we have been told the equivalent of “fuck you, I need cheap gas, I don’t care what happened to you.”
It feels like yet another of the already numerous assaults on my humanity and it took me a long time to even believe I was human and worth anything. Society has simply told me what I knew before: I’m neither human or relevant and I need to shut the fuck up. The wound is deep and has been torn open again.
There’s a reason that so many abuse victims like myself are so fucking angry about politics, and it has…
