
Boola Bus
The Blindboy Podcast
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I've Just Been Kicked Down a Slide
When i was four or five, and i'd just been kicked down the slide really hard into the back by a girl. And it felt humiliating, and it felt like my rights had been taken away. But what would have happened if an adult chastised that girl for kicking me down the slide? Would they have said to her, you're a big, strong woman now, and he's a younger boy, and you can't be hit in boys? No, she would have been chastised because acts of physical violence are not seen as ladylike or feminine. Instead, she started bawling crying, which, again, isn't a folly.
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