We Had to Remove This Post

by Hanna Bervoets

you think to yourself, but you don’t say that, no, all day long you bite your tongue because if you accidentally say something sensible in reply—“Ma’am, is that really the end of the world?”—they start screaming,

HAahaahaaa accurate

of course it’s always the ones who bitch and moan that rate their experience,

I began to realize it wasn’t me that was the problem. It was the beauty standards society imposed on us, self-loathing and abandonment issues going back to childhood, yada yada, the stuff of women’s magazines, but I still felt responsible somehow.

“Secondary trauma caused by long-term exposure to shocking images can cause depression, anxiety, and paranoid thoughts”—isn’t