Listen for the Lie

by Amy Tintera

Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness.”

And people hate that quality in a young woman, don’t they? They don’t know what to do with a girl who isn’t looking for their approval. They feel like they have to bring her down a peg.

In the end, life is just sweatpants and children who resent you and all your choices. But no one wants to hear that.