This is brilliant.
It’s also a damn tragedy that it needs to exist.
It should also be acknowledged that more than 99% of the time, the red pen is used by women.
But when the Republican candidate for President and former President openly boasts about sexual assault and a jury of his peers finds him liable for sexual assault, and yet a majority of his party still supports him, it shouldn’t be all that surprising that a system like this is required.
When a society — or certain aspects of it — allows men to assault women, denigrates them for choosing not to have children, and strips away their bodily autonomy, systems like this need to exist.
When terrible men see other terrible men at the top of the food chain acting terribly without repercussions, they are permitted — and almost encouraged — to act upon their terrible instincts in terrible ways.
As a result, good people need to use black and red pens to try to save victims from further victimization.
