Rocio (AKA PETE) and I sat in my living. We were talking about pursuing our dreams. Rocio, a recently turned 21-year-old is in the process of moving from Portland, OR to LA to pursue her passion: acting. While we had meaningful discussions about what we wanted out of our futures, I vulnerably read Rocio something I had been working on... A book proposal. I talked about moments that have shaped my life and in that vulnerability, Rocio and I discovered that we had mistakenly similar experiences with some of the men in our lives. In this episode of #WakingUpWithRay Rocio and I talk about how much easier it is for people to look the other way in instances of rape culture. We listen to women scream #MeToo but when those women point a finger at who, we quickly deny her experience rather than questioning how he walks through the world. In our socially patriarchal society, violence against women and other minorities is seen as something to have a call to action; but the minute we have to hold the people in our own lives accountable, we choose to look the other way for the sake of how uncomfortable discomfort is. As young women, we are discovering that although our childhoods were masked with fairytales of equality, the world is just as misogynistic as it always has been. Will you choose accountability or comfort?