🟥 When Threats Against Women Aren’t Taken Seriously

Today I saw the man who gave me the tent, and I told him the full story:

Daryl threatened to slit my throat. He had a piece of glass in his hand.

After he was arrested, he was let out of jail almost immediately.

He came back screaming he would burn the encampment to the ground and murder all of us.

He shouted, “I love the KKK, I love the KKK because they burn people to death,” celebrating racist, misogynistic terror.

And what did people say?

> “He’s really a sweetheart. He was just trying to get at you.”

This is what women are told: that threats of murder, open declarations of white supremacist violence, and actual weapons in hand don’t count as real danger. That we should excuse it, minimize it, and keep living in terror because the man is “a sweetheart.”

This isn’t a misunderstanding. It’s a system that refuses to see violence against women—especially unhoused women—as real crime. It’s a culture that tolerates predators and calls them sweethearts while women fight to stay alive.

I won’t let this go unseen. If you read this, share it. Talk about it. Demand better. Because if this can happen in plain sight, none of us are truly safe.