“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.
We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man.
Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.
Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same?
We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men.
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
It’s always a good time to expand your emotional vocabulary. Imagine just how much miscommunication you can avoid by accurately labeling your emotions and their depth. Were you really “upset” or were you actually disappointed? Were you “anxious” or excited?
This story is bonkers. Cops in this South Carolina town run an annual 5-day operation where they stop as many cars as possible. They find any reason to pull people over. And often if the driver has cash, police steal it.
In 2022, cops seized $968,611. That's $194,000 per day.
“How can a black woman also be Indian???”
“If a woman has high testosterone does that make her male???”
-The people trying to ban race and gender studies.
I suspect some of you view voting as a statement of your personal values, instead of a way to marginally improve the conditions for your everyday organizing work that could actually change the world
Guys, Shein cut ties with Israeli influencers, removed the link to purchase Palestinian flags and blocked free deliveries to Israel. You know how evil you have to be as a country for SHEIN to cut ties with you 💀💀💀
“STOP THE GENOCIDE!”
Not hundreds. Not thousands. But tens of thousands flood DC streets to charge Joe Biden with genocide & demand he stop #Gazagenocide & #FreePalestine