sirja pasanen | a woman within the mother

I saw a dream last night, having a few older men coming to me while I was sitting on a mall. I had a skirt on and they would come and touch my legs. I started screaming and shouting in the middle of the mall, making sure everyone could hear and see what was happening.

That’s usually not how it goes. Us women go through shame, we wan’t no one seeing what is happening to us, we stay silent when we are meant to scream. I felt so powerful in that dream having it all coming out.

But how different would the world look like if the men around us were keeping us safe? When we would feel as wherever we go, we are protected, because for every man willing to do harm there would be a man standing up for us, making sure we go unharmed?

So that us women can focus on loving the world whole.