Every stereotype about women that men made up, is just men projecting. misogyny is basically men writing fanfiction about women and then getting angry when women refuse to play the characters they invented.
Algeria’s women’s national team raised the Palestinian flag in celebration after securing the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations bronze medal with a penalty shootout win against Morocco, gathering behind goalkeeper Chloé Yamina N’Gazi to mark the moment.
Cleopatra spoke nine languages, studied astronomy, medicine, and philosophy at the Library of Alexandria, and ruled Egypt for two decades through war, famine, and Roman invasion. Rome reduced all of it to one word: seductress.
It’s always fun to throw people off with your duality. You can be mysterious but also honest about your lived experiences. Funny but strict. You can be multiple things at once. Life is more fun that way when you have a multidimensional and layered personality.
“I will not give birth to a life that will discriminate against my gender. My own flesh and blood must not become a blade and turn against me. If the world born from my body oppresses me I will not let that world exist.”
Maturing is realizing they never burned witches. They burned midwives, healers, herbalists, and knowledgeable women.
Women who understood medicine, nature, and their own autonomy. Women whose knowledge threatened patriarchal control. The "witch hunts" were never about magic, they were about silencing women who couldn't be controlled.