As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.
As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes”, I am a feminist.
As long as women have to face the rational fear of being sexually assaulted every time they walk home past dark while men don’t, I am a feminist.
As long as misogyny exists in any country in this world, I am a feminist.
As long as women are being raped, then stoned to death or forced to marry their rapist, I am a feminist.
As long as companies promote men to manager when there are women who are equally as or better qualified, because they find that men look more authoritative, I am a feminist.
As long as women (her choice of clothes, her friendly nature, her weakness, her choice to drink alcohol) get blamed when men rape them, I am a feminist.
As long women’s opinions on online social networks are dismissed with phrases like “tits or gtfo”, “get back to the kitchen”, “are you pms’ing?”, I am a feminist.
As long as dressing like a women is degrading for men and as long as men are insulted with phrases like “you throw like a woman”, clearly implying that being like a woman is shameful, I am a feminist.
As long as both men are women are expected to work, but taking care of children and the household are still largely considered a woman’s job, I am a feminist.
As long as boys and girls are treated differently, expected to act differently, and surrounded by different toys and colours from the day they are born, I am a feminist.
As long as topless women aren’t allowed in public unless they’re on the cover of a men’s magazine, I am a feminist.
As long as women who have sex frequently are generally told they are “sluts”, “lacking self-respect” and “lacking morals” by both men and women, while men who frequently have sex are “just being men” and it’s “natural for them”, I am a feminist.
As long as there are places where women have to pay more for health insurance than men, I am a feminist.
As long as men experience situations with equal gender representation as female-dominated, and don’t consider a group discussion equal unless there are significantly more men then women participants (as has been proven), I am a feminist.
As long as there are men who think it’s their wife or girlfriend’s duty to have sex with him whenever he wants, I am a feminist.
As long as the word feminism (“the movement aimed at equal rights for women”) has a negative connotation, I am a feminist.
As long as misogynist people exist, I am a feminist.
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Caitlin Moran - ‘How to be a Woman.’ (via classicallycapricorn)
on friday i saw a girl wearing a shirt that proclaimed ‘i wanted to be a feminist but i’m just too pretty’. which… no. just no. #1, no and #2, no.
(Source: anothergirlsparadise-x, via classicallycapricorn)
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Her name is Makpal Abdrazakova and she’s the only female eagle hunter in Kazakhstan.
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[…]Ughhhh Feminist for Life are the worst. Their cloying “Women Deserve Better” slogan makes me want to hurl. I don’t know how they can say they’re any better than the standard anti-choicers with their “we don’t believe in killing babies” rhetoric. Not to mention the abject shaming and negative value judgement of anyone deserving “better” than a legal procedure that will prevent them from becoming a parent against their will.
No thanks, I deserve the medical procedures that I want. I deserve to decide when I have children. I deserve to decide whether or not to let another life form use my internal organs. I deserve a choice.
-Jess
you’re so right! real feminists don’t kill babies! real feminists don’t kill anybody. abortions, however, are free game because there are no babies involved.
and you know what? you’re also right on the ‘women deserve better’ part. women do deserve better. women deserve comprehensive sex education and easy access to contraception. women deserve to get pregnant on their own terms.
(Source: radicatz)
Like if someone is pregnant and doesn’t want to be.
