Mindfulness. There is a beautiful side to us that can heal these wounds. It can only come from understanding that nurturing is how we get out of this traumatizing AF world. Not the nurturing of misogyny/patriarchy. It’s more primal and less subservient than that. It’s care. 8/8💜

My mom died almost 2 yrs ago. It is close to what would have been her 84th birthday. She had Alzheimer’s. Her last 10 years of life, but especially when her mind started going in the last 5 years she was treated with profound dignity and care. Because Alzheimer’s makes it 1/2

For those in the comments who keep saying that reproduction and the need to spread one’s genes is a driver and partly responsible for rape. It’s just nature! If this was a universal standard there would be no example in nature where not all adults reproduce. But this isn’t 1/2