What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
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Mostly because I was proud of my depression. I’d read somewhere on the internet that it was a sign of extreme intelligence, and I’d started to consider depression as some type of X-ray vision, with which I could see the world clearly in ways that others could not—that is, not only the skin but also the skeleton.
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when people think you’re nobody, they’ll say all types of stupid shit in front of you as if you aren’t there.
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you might be able to dupe the boss, but karma is elegant, and God sees everything.
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But me, as a mother? I never wanted that for my girls—to experience that type of violence, because sometimes getting hit like that made you think you didn’t deserve to fucking smile.
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Better than any political science class you could ever take in college, a place like Mariposa’s really taught you how deeply patriarchy was linked to capitalism. But what good was it, really, to know about a thing, to attach a name to its invisible force, if, regardless, you were gonna constantly be stuck in it?
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I strongly believe that we all should be able to choose our own ways to be ashamed.
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Whose design was it to choreograph such violence between these women, who was really in charge, and why could I not stop watching?
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Say something is bigger than you, like much bigger, like a lot; is it really your fault if you cannot stop it?
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Look how beauty and subservience had so much more currency in this world than a bachelor’s degree in biology.