#ava out

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IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD IT TODAY : you are amazing. you are spectacular. and whatever you're going through? it will pass. you've got this, friend. keep at it. the brightest dawn is after the darkest dusk. i'm proud of you. go get some water. stretch. smile. and remember you are loved.

[laviniagardner]

[srrybabe]

im rlly depressed so heres to taking a fucking 16 hour depression nap

[laughingtaffy]

In regards to the Maren Sanchez thing anon has been messaging me about

Basically, I don't know the whole story, neither does anyone else. Yes, including her friends. Her friends do not know everything just because they are her friends. They knew her personally, sure, they may have known the boy who stabbed her personally on some level as well, but they still have no way of knowing everything. Their opinions are just as valid as a random stranger's on the internet. 

This whole thing is a damn tragedy. Maren didn't deserve to be stabbed. From what I remember reading and hearing about the boy who did so, he seems mentally ill, although that doesn't really lessen the whole ordeal much. 

Now, about the controversy around how "feminists are horrible for using her death as a means to talk about men's privileges" and what not, this is my stance:

Feminists SHOULD talk about this. Honestly, I thought the exact same shit when I read the news about this. I instantly thought "great, another asshole decides he's entitled to a woman and got pissed and now she's dead." I think it's a pretty normal, standard reaction for most women to have, considering a good majority of us have endured some form of similar reaction from men in our lives (I don't necessarily mean being stabbed but rather other forms of violence, derogatory remarks, etc. etc.). Give me one good reason people shouldn't talk about something like this when it's a pretty big issue? I think it would be far more disrespectful to Maren's memory to NOT talk about it. 

Ugh it's so frustrating to even type this because like I originally stated, NO ONE KNOWS ALL THE ANSWERS and it's SO HARD to just talk about it like you're some kind of expert on what people think and on what happened. Everyone can have their own opinions and views on this, but I honestly think the more despicable thing in all of this is the people who are bashing an entire movement based on the fact that they want to talk about a serious issue, and it's ALWAYS BEEN THERE, it's just been brought up to the surface by this tragedy. 

I really don't know what else to write about on this subject. I think I've gotten everything out there but maybe not, I don't know. To be honest, I've kind of stayed away from the subject because I know there are going to be people who will message me crying about how I'm wrong or whatever. It's also why I don't post much personal shit on here and why ya'll don't really ever see/hear me haha.