Unimaginable.
I’m sorry the world is the way it is. That a lot of you have to live in fear, fear of a variety of things that could befall any living creature but above all else fear of men. I’m sorry we aren’t better, being fully aware of the futility of this makes it all that much harder to write. These are just letters on a screen, these won’t make the world a better safer place for women and girls, these words are almost selfish because they are coming from the side of the oppressor trying to find some peace knowing he can’t truly stop his kind from oppressing. I’m sorry that most of my life I couldn’t relate to your struggles, I couldn’t even mentally digest them properly. Do I sympathize? Entirely. Even throw in some empathy to the mix but I genuinely did not understand. I lacked the urgency because deep down no matter how sad the stories got I couldn’t personally relate, I couldn’t picture myself in that position and so I couldn’t possibly comprehend the gravity of all of it. ...