y’all imagine a world in which i didn’t start crying in random situations that Are Literally Not Rationally Upsetting At All as a result of abuse- and trauma-altered neural pathways, imagine how much less humiliating my life would be

I haven’t been mansplained at in a while, but today I had a gamerboi tell me all about his thoughts on diversity in video game writing while talking over me and spouting lots of toxic stuff, AFTER I told him that I’m a game dev. He even managed to sexualize me in this discussion. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! He mentioned that his friends always say he should write about video games “because women writing about video games is ruining everything” without adding anything that would indicate that his friends are major dicks for saying that.

And I have to work closely with him for the next month so that’s