Brutal.

There’s a really strange (but fun) Japanese movie called Fish Story about a punk song that saves the world. I felt like I had to share that. Interesting that the victim is sexless. Was that on purpose? Also, I got the feeling that this was part of something larger. Were there more groups in different cities doing the same thing?

Good job!

Creeeepy. I will never go out alone in tge dark because if this

Robert: I can answer all of your questions in one go. Like so:

This Ficly is actually based on something that happened to me about a decade ago. It stays with you, being assaulted in the street. It never really goes away.

When I published the Ficly and re-read it to myself, I realised I’d got the balance of the story wrong – I focused too much on the attack itself, and not on the fear of attack. Ten years later, I still can’t go for a walk without that fear that some other person out there in the world is waiting to attack me.

I’ve felt like that for a decade, but many women have felt that fear their entire lives. Women are taught to fear attack, that it’s practically inevitable, that they need to carry mace or a rape whistle, all the time. Women are taught that if they wear revealing clothing that they’re “asking for it.”

It’s unjust and it’s not fair – instead of teaching women how not to get raped and then blaming them when it happens anyway, we should be teaching men not to rape.