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[Doreen A 🇨🇦 @AlayeDoreen]

"Naomi Osaka is ruining Wimbledon!"
"It's not a fashion show! It should be about tennis!"
"This is a blatant disregard for the traditions and rules of Wimbledon"

Meanwhile, Early Wimbledon Women...

[Brooda John @Nigeriangod_]

I’ve never seen anyone tell a man to endure a bad wife, as soon he has a bad wife or he start complaining about his wife,the first thing he’s asked to do is “leave that woman and marry another woman”, nobody is asking him to pray or fast for his wife or be patient with his wife but when a woman marries a bad Husband everyone is suddenly telling her to pray, the church tells her to endure and fast and give him time to change.

They’re telling her she’s a mother and men are big babies so she need to treat him as one, she should nurture a grown man,it’s the reason why they associate endurance,patience and long suffering with the female gender

Why’s endurance meant for women and men are told to love themselves and never tolerate any forms of disrespect from a woman?, if you like endure rubbish from a man, he wouldn’t tolerate the same from you.

[A✰ @Avazoey_]

this!!!

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

“He has childhood trauma.” So do I.
“He’s under a lot of pressure at work.” So am I.
“He’s just overwhelmed.” Me too.
The only difference is that we excuse men’s behavior, and shame women for not carrying it.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

You cannot spend years breaking a child's spirit and then expect a few words in adulthood to repair what took years to destroy. You cannot teach a child to fear your footsteps, your voice, your moods, and your anger, then expect them to see you as a source of comfort later in life.

[lacey @LHSInteriors]

@AlejandraM78461 13

[miskeen @marygzzz]

Graduated with my Masters last week from Harvard University 😝

[Stronggirl💪🇨🇲🇪🇸 @stronggirllolla]

I love women who are comfortable in their skin. She ate the runway and she is not sorry about it🔥🔥🔥

[🦋 fairy 🧚‍♂️ @thisdecfairy]

him: “send me a picture of you playing with your 🐱.”

me:

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

This woman has never looked bad a single day since I’ve known her.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

Representation is important 🖤

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[malikina azifaa @malkizifa]

This video has united us women in the world 😭🤣

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

How come these men never think to sell their own bodies?

Why is it always women having to pay the price with their bodies, and souls for both the lack of protection from their fathers and the degenerate freaks willing to violate innocent girls.

[dhanishtamoon ☾ @aquamoonbb]

“Not once did I imagine that I had fallen in love. Liberated women did not ‘fall in love,’ we chose to love- that was different from falling in love. Choosing meant that we exercised will, power and agency. Falling implied a loss of power, the possibility of victimhood.”

[Kevin Jordan @kevin_jordan__]

ADHD changes with age.

20s: Fun chaos.

30s: Realising you've been outpaced by everyone.

40s: Wondering who you'd be if anyone had caught it when you were 10.

50s: Grieving for the decades you spent trying to be someone else.

[Osmorfus @osmorfus]

@linmeitalks As an Indian, the reason we and every other Asian could advance quickly despite racism at individual level is because Blacks fought systemic racism from the front and cleared the path. If they hadn't, most American Indians would still be in India and American Chinese in China

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Some of us became “easygoing” because we learned very young that having needs annoyed people.

So now we say “it’s fine” before anyone even asks. We apologize for existing too loudly. We over-explain small mistakes like we’re trying to avoid a punishment that isn’t even coming anymore.
And the weird part is most people would describe us as calm, mature, low maintenance.
Not realizing that for some people, survival just happened to look polite.

[blue @bluewmist]

When you stop reading books, you start losing verbal dexterity, depth of thought and imagination.
A closed book is a closed mind.
Don't EVER stop reading.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

One of the most shameless lies still told about colonialism is that European powers gifted Africa its roads, its schools, its hospitals. Shut up! You gifted us nothing. We built it, we paid for it, we bled for it.
Those roads were not built so African farmers could trade with each other or so African communities could grow. They were built to move our minerals and our crops from the interior to the ports and ship them to Europe.

Every kilometre of colonial railway followed the same logic: not to serve us, but to drain us. The hospitals were built to keep labourers alive enough to keep working, not because colonial administrators believed African lives had value, but because a sick worker interrupts the extraction schedule. My grandmother was denied treatment for her twins dying of smallpox because my grandfather was in prison for resisting colonial rule. She lost one of them.

And who built any of it? Our grandparents. Forced, beaten, worked into the ground under quotas, mutilated when they failed to meet them. When someone calls that a gift, what they are really asking is that we thank our oppressors for the infrastructure our own suffering produced.

We also paid for it in cash. In 1932, French colonial commissioner Robert de Guise imposed new taxes on Togolese people whose incomes had already collapsed by nearly sixty percent during the Great Depression. When women dared to protest, France shipped 174 colonial soldiers from Côte d'Ivoire to crush them. Girls as young as thirteen were raped and 12 protesters were killed. That is how the roads, the schools, the administrative buildings, the hospitals were financed: with our blood. Not European generosity.

And when independence finally came, the colonisers left with a bill. They calculated the cost of everything they had built through our coerced labour and our taxed income, called it colonial debt, and demanded repayment from the very nations they had spent a century looting. We paid for our own exploitation. Twice!

In Europe, when a government builds a road, no citizen is asked to be grateful. It is called public service. But when colonisers built infrastructure on our land, with our bodies, with our money, after killing and raping us, we are expected to call it the "benefits of colonialism". The audacity!