A day in my life

So I’m getting really sick and tired of being told that everything that feminists spout is somehow a political construct that we use to piss off men. So, I’m going to share what a day in my life is like.
7:30- get up, check to make sure that there aren’t creepy guys in my girls only hall bathroom, and take a shower
8:00- call male escort so that I can go eat breakfast
8:15- eat breakfast in cafeteria with male escort so that the creepy stalkers leave me alone
9:15- walk to class with male escort for the same reason above
9:30 take notes in class, while trying to make sure that the random creepy stalker guys are not sitting next to me so that I am not groped in class
11:00- text male escort to say that I am done with class so that I can leave and go eat lunch
11:15 sit down and eat lunch with male escort so that I don’t get the creepy stalkers coming near me
12:00 get escorted to either class or dorm room depending on the day of the week
2:00 depending on the day text male escort to come escort me to my next class
5:00 text male escort to come get me so that I can go eat dinner
6:00 get walked back to my room by male escort so that
after this my schedule varies, but no matter what I do not leave my room without having a guy escort me. Why? because there are 7 guys on my campus who stalk me. If there isn’t a man walking with me I get harassed and followed by at least one of them. I hit one of them in the face after he grabbed me and got arrested and had to fit 25 hours of community service into my already busy schedule. My school does nothing to fix this. I can’t leave my dorm without being in fear of being attacked by these men. It angers me to no end to hear men say again and again that these things don’t happen and it’s all just a “political construct” for us to use against men. I’m tired of this. I’m tired of no one taking this seriously. I’m tired of not being able to leave my dorm without someone. I want to be able to go where I want when I want and not have to worry about creepy stalker guys following me around or harming me in some other way.

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