Hi everybody! I hope you're having a nice weekend.

I'm *hopefully* going to study some stuff and then be back on Twitter tonight. Not totally sure.

But I wanted to get some statements off my chest & also pose some questions/ideas for Twitter that I can't get to myself for now.

First off -- the other day, when I was complaining about why I had to leave my place in Denver, I mentioned that I was being "mildly sexually harassed."

I want to clarify this statement, because I think I was positioning myself in a way I didn't intend. https://twitter.com/PreemiMaboroshi/status/1314705003467083776

So, the "mild sexual harassment" I faced was basically that, whenever I spoke with the person in question, he would *always* stroke my chest -- always on the pretext of something about my shirt.

And he would *always* work in ways to do fellatio gestures during our conversations.

Now, what I'd like to say here is that, what this guy did -- not *touching*, but *stroking* me; and always finding gross ways to work Hannibal Lecter-slurpy-esque fellatio gestures into our talks -- was -- so absurd, I could actually find it hilarious, in and of itself, for sure!

The "mild sexual harassment," in and of itself, was not what upset me in this case.

What upset me was being stalked into and out of my house and neighborhood, being monitored by this guy 24/7, and being accused of things -- I personally believe, because I'm a Mexican-American!

I really feel it's important to mention -- I was harassed, stalked, and violated by the husband of the person I was paying in exchange for peaceful occupancy of a space.

And had the weirdly sexual gestures been absent, I'd still have felt (racially) harassed out of that space.

I want to mention this because I want to emphasize that my personal feeling is that it's not cool to get super-upset or feel morally obliged to feel violated any time someone makes a pass at me or sexualizes their interactions with me.

And being indignant can make me an asshole.

In general, I like to recall that, at a few -- not a lot, but a few, Pride Fests, I have had my ass grabbed so hard by strangers, that I've been like, "What was that guy trying to do? Wipe my butt?"

But I don't feel like I needed to be all super-shocked or violated by that act!

Additionally, I've had a few women and a lot of men through my life tell me I was sexy and tell me they wanted to have sex with me.

Even when I was a kid, out running in my cross country shorts, men would tell me I looked sexy.

That's no reason to feel harassed or violated!

Americans (at least) always try to shortcut harassment into narrowly defined but broadly reaching terms.

The problem with that is, we overcriminalize and stigmatize certain (usually gay/queer) actions, while also missing the point and perpetuating actual cultures of violation.

The real questions for me are, How are people being harassed or violated (usually because of gender, sexuality, and/or race), and how do we stop that violation?

But the question (easy-indicator & scandal-oriented), ends up being, What sex stuff can we most easily pin on folks?

So I really want to make it clear -- I wasn't *sexually* harassed out of my place.

I was stalked, monitored, accused of things, and harassed in a number of ways, including sexual ways, by a number of people.

The sexualized gestures in themselves were not a huge deal for me.

Another thing I want to clarify is from the thread about COVID I made last week.

I ended by saying people should really take the basic actions needed to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

I would like to clarify a little about what I personally mean by that. https://twitter.com/PreemiMaboroshi/status/1317939148653670400

I personally have, since mid-March, when the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started being taken seriously in the US, stayed at home almost all the time.

I partly do this, for sure, to do my part to prevent the spread of COVID.

But I was also already staying at home a lot before then.

To emphasize yet again -- starting in mid-2018, I was being targeted and stalked so hard that I essentially felt like I was under house arrest.

That situation never stopped.

COVID lockdowns only reinforced my personal feeling that I was safer at home.

Safer -- FROM STALKERS!!!

So I wouldn't suggest people practice COVID safety by following my life as an example -- i.e. staying home all the time.

I stay home all the time to avoid the people stalking me, not to avoid COVID.

COVID precautions are, in my opinion, masks, social distancing, & hand-washing.

These COVID complainers out there who, as soon as you say, "Mask, social distancing, hand washing," are like, "You just want me to stay home all the time! You want to close down businesses!"

But that's seriously not true.

Wearing a mask is easy.

Your complaints make life hard.

At the same time -- Americans (at least) tend to do social things with a herd, or, as I like to call it, pig-piling, mentality.

There are these few social things to do. And everybody just all crowds together for these social things.

And I don't think that is good at this time.

I have continued to stand against mass gatherings and demonstrations -- be they for the long-sought equality for Black people, or for the long-afforded supremacy of white people -- because I feel, regardless of mask wearing, they, at the very least!, increase COVID transmission.

But I don't believe visiting public spaces in general is bad, if you use the very basic and easy COVID precautions.

At the same time -- I hope that COVID precautions *might* encourage people to think of how to expand their social activities outside the herd or pig-piling method.

For me, personally, though -- I'm 100 miles outside Denver now. So I can't practically go regularly to my favorite movie/stage theaters.

But even if I could -- I wouldn't!

Because Americans' fucking public bathroom habits are like ASKING for COVID!

Hand washing creates a risk!

This is another thing I see as being a part of violation culture in America.

And women do it, like men do, honestly.

But Americans act just fucking DISGUSTING in public restrooms.

Public restrooms are centers of non-sexual violation -- via piss, shit, paper, water, snot, etc.

Some final ideas I'd like to put on Twitter before going to my "studies" (lol).

I'd like to reaffirm this thread I did the other day about my opinions on housing and the stock market during the pandemic.

I just can't follow up on this thread right now. https://twitter.com/PreemiMaboroshi/status/1303050806426365952

People seem surprised at the health of the housing market.

But housing finance hasn't been over-leveraged like in 2007-8.

Refinancing is possible and happening. People are using their houses for wealth-maintenance purposes, I *think*.

Liquidity hasn't seemed to be an issue.