I’m sitting in the plaza, smoking.
It’s an ordinary afternoon. Brick. Benches. A fountain trying to sound serene. I’m not bothering anyone. I’m just there.
A park ranger walks
Women don’t separate AI from its automated scripts. When those scripts repeat institutional claims that don’t match lived reality, trust doesn’t erode in the “safety layer.” It collapses in the entire system.
Startup culture frames near-bankruptcy and investor rejection as heroic failure. But for many women founders, risk is not financial embarrassment — it is bodily danger, coercion, and institutional indifference. When violence is ignored and survivors are discredited, the myth of meritocracy collapses