I Don't Tell This Story
I've been otherwise silent on social media about the whole MeToo movement and the reasons I tell myself are because my parents and family would see it and I don't want them to worry. If I'm being honest with myself, it's probably more because I worry they'd look at me differently with the knowledge I'm about to expose to the Internet. Yes, the Internet: the cruelest, most hurtful anonymous place in the universe. I don't get it either but there is something compelling me to do this and do it right now before I lose the gumption. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school from K-12. It was an experience that scarred me in many ways, but mostly in terms of self image, self respect and self awareness. My first memories of sex ed are from fourth grade. The teachers separated the girls and the boys and my fourth grade teacher showed us drawings of uteruses and penises. They weren't lifelike drawings - more like blueprint, cross-sections. She als